Legal Opinion
United States v. Darrell W. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 23, 1998No. 97-1738PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Per curiam
Darrell Thomas sold crack cocaine to an informant in controlled transactions that were recorded on audio tape. Puzzlingly, the prosecutor charged Thomas with conspiracy to distribute drugs but not with their actual distribution. Conspiracy was much harder to establish, for the evidence was as consistent with intermittent sales as it was with criminal conspiracy, which is “an agreement to commit a crime other than the crime that consists of the sale itself.” United States v. Lechuga, 994 F.2d 346, 347 (7th Cir.1993) (en banc) (lead opinion); United States v. Duff, 76 F.3d 122, 126 (7th…
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