Legal Opinion
United States v. Eric C. Howard
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 1, 1999No. 98-3544PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Eric C. Howard of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, including less than fifty kilograms of marijuana, a Schedule I narcotic. The district court sentenced him to thirty months imprisonment. Howard now appeals both his conviction and his sentence. He claims that his conviction was improper because: (1) the government did not provide substantial independent evidence to corroborate his pre-trial statements; and (2) the district court erred by not instructing the jury to specifically find that the government must provide…
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