Legal Opinion
United States v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 23, 2008No. 07-3061PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY, Chief Judge.
Tracy Smith was convicted by a jury on seventeen charges related to a drug conspiracy. The district court sentenced her to 324 months’ imprisonment. Ms. Smith appeals her conviction and her sentence. Exercising jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm both.
I. BACKGROUND
Ms. Smith was indicted on charges relating to a drug conspiracy she entered with Dennis Torrence during an eighteen-month span, from October 2003 to June 2005. Mr. Torrence pleaded guilty and testified against Ms. Smith.
The investigation of Ms. Smith began with a series of “trash pulls” — or…
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