Legal Opinion
United States v. Jim Clay
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 6, 1994No. 93-3699, 93-3840PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
For over a year, Jim Clay regularly purchased distribution-size quantities of cocaine from Hamdi Ayyash, a local drug supplier for several Chicago-area dealers. Clay financed his transactions with Ayyash on credit, with Ayyash maintaining a current ledger and Clay making payments on his account from the proceeds of the cocaine resales. After a bench trial Clay was convicted -of both a substantive drug charge and conspiracy. He challenges (1) the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the latter conviction, contending that only a simple buyer-seller relationship was…
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