Legal Opinion
United States v. Balano
District Court, W.D. Missouri
Decided February 19, 1993No. 92-00023-01-CR-W-6PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SACHS, Senior District Judge..
This opinion deals with certain novel and important legal issues that are dispositive of the major points that must be resolved at sentencing on February 22, 1993. Other issues will be orally ruled. Unrelated matters were dealt with in a published pretrial ruling. United States v. Balano, 788 F.Supp. 1076 (W.D.Mo.1992).
Defendant has been acquitted of a drug conspiracy charge, involving events in January and February 1991. He has been convicted of a comparatively small cocaine sale in a “sting” operation, after the key distributor was caught…
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