United States v. Neil Virgil Coyle, United States of America v. Mark Edward Swedzinski

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Coyle and Swedzinski appeal their convictions for aiding and abetting and conspiracy to grow marijuana. Swedzinski also appeals his conviction for carrying a firearm in relation to the drug offense. Coyle raises an insufficiency of evidence argument and Swedzinski argues that the district court 1 erred in refusing to instruct the jury on intent. We affirm the convictions.

On September 20, 1991, agents of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension discovered a plot of cultivated marijuana in Lincoln County, Minnesota. The agents placed the area under…