Mondello v. State

CARDINE, Justice.

This is a conspiracy to sell drugs case in which there was no evidence that Giuseppe Mondello, a/k/a Joe Mondello (Mondello) and Mark Charles Jones (Jones) ever sold any drugs to anybody. There was no drug distribution ring. There was no one in the business of selling narcotics except the State’s informant. Over a period of one and a half years, Mondello did no more than give money or pay money to buy drugs for himself. The case was made by a drug dealer who, in exchange for testifying to an agreement with Mondello and Jones to sell drugs, avoided prosecution for his…