Legal Opinion
United States v. Carlos Solomon and Katrina F. Solomon
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 12, 1988No. 87-8065PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge:
The defendants, Carlos Solomon, a former Atlanta police officer, and his wife, Katrina Solomon, were convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute hydromorphone, commonly known as dilaudid, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a), and of unlawfully obtaining dilaudid by means of forged prescriptions and misrepresentations.
On appeal, the Solomons contend that there are three grounds for reversal of their convictions. We reject these contentions.
I. Instruction on the presumption of innocence
The defendants contend first that the trial…
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