Legal Opinion
United States v. Thomas E. Short, United States of America v. Curtis Drummond
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 17, 1986No. 86-1404, 86-1405PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Curtis Drummond and Thomas E. Short were convicted of manufacturing marijuana and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. See 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). The manufacturing charge, for which a concurrent sentence was imposed, is not a subject of this appeal. We affirm.
After surveillance by federal officers of apparent cultivation activities, Short and Drummond were arrested near a field containing 279 mature marijuana plants. The plants would have yielded approximately 279 pounds of marijuana having an approximate street value of $279,000. There was no direct or…
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