Legal Opinion

United States v. Thompson

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided June 7, 2006No. 05-1824PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CYR, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant Kurt H. Thompson challenges the district court order convicting him of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 or more grams of cocaine. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(B)(ii), 846. We affirm.

I

BACKGROUND

In 2003, Justin Canney began purchasing large supplies of high-purity, uncut cocaine from Jason Higgins in New York for resale in Maine. Defendant Thompson soon began purchasing from five to twenty ounces of cocaine per week from Canney, which he resold to his own customers, whom he identified, inter alia, as “Jared,” “Dan,”…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  2. Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  3. United States v. SepulvedaCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1993
  4. United States v. BrandonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
  5. United States v. Ralph PetrozzielloCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1977

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3Cited by18 opinions

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  4. United States v. DowdellCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2010
  5. United States v. CiresiCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2012

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