Legal Opinion
United States v. Petersen
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided October 1, 2010No. 08-4793 & 08-4794PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
(October 1, 2010)
McKee, Chief Circuit Judge.
Glenn Petersen and Trevor Dorsett appeal their convictions for possessing more than 500 grams of cocaine with intent to distribute, and for aiding and abetting that possession. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm the judgments of conviction.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND.
The circumstances leading to the defendants’ arrest and conviction began as Virgin Islands Police Officers Angela Brown and Steve Gibbons were monitoring surveillance cameras in a police station on the island of St. John. Those cameras had been deployed in “high crime areas”…
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