Legal Opinion
United States v. James Lee Evans
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 17, 1991No. 90-6589, 90-6590PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge.
The defendant relies upon the Double Jeopardy Clause as a ground for reversing his conviction pursuant to a guilty plea for violating the continuing criminal enterprise (CCE) statute, 21 U.S.C. § 848, following an earlier conviction for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing cocaine and marijuana, 21 U.S.C. § 846. The government concedes that some of the same evidence introduced in the conspiracy trial would have been relied upon to establish the alleged operation of a continuing criminal enterprise. Resolution of this issue requires us…
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