Legal Opinion
United States v. Benbow
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 18, 2008No. 07-10560PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
The facts underlying this case began like something out of a James Bond novel but soon morphed into an international drug conspiracy sting. After the tale was told at the district court level, Christopher Benbow was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. This is his appeal of that conviction.
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In the fall of 2003 Benbow, a citizen of Great Britain who lived in Estonia, learned that several Russian former KGB agents were trying to sell nine kilograms of strontium packed in circular…
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