Legal Opinion
United States v. Ronald Lyles, Jesse Johnson, Carlos Holder and Benjamin Dunham, Defendants
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 26, 1979No. 104 to 106, 115, Docket 78-1184 to 78-1186, 78-1193PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESKILL, Circuit Judge:
Ronald Lyles, Jesse Johnson, Benjamin Dunham and Carlos Holder were convicted, after a joint jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Eugene Nickerson, Judge, of conspiring to distribute heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. 1 Although the four appeals raise a variety of legal issues, we hold that nothing in the record before us warrants reversal. The judgments of conviction are hereby affirmed.
I. Background.
Appellants do not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, which tended to prove the following. In 1972 Warren…
2Cases cited49 opinions
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3Cited by114 opinions
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