Legal Opinion
United States v. Timothy Wayne Spence
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 1, 1997No. 97-1482PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Timothy Wayne Spence appeals his conviction and seventy-month sentence for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). He argues there was insufficient evidence to convict and that the district court 1 erred when it admitted evidence of his prior arrest for possession of marijuana and then used that prior drug quantity in calculating his base offense level for sentencing. We affirm.
1. Sufficiency of the Evidence. Spence argues that the evidence was insufficient to sustain his conviction. We summarize that evidence in the light…
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