Legal Opinion
United States v. Louis I. Gordon, Eduardo Jose Garcia, Jeffrey Mark Berg, James M. Cowen, and Eric Theodore Lubov
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 22, 1978No. 77-5831PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.
Berg, Lubov, Garcia, Cowen, and Gordon appeal convictions for violating the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq. The one-count indictment charged that they conspired to manufacture methaqualone, a schedule II non-narcotic controlled substance, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (conspiracy to violate 21 U.S.C. § 841) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 (aiding and abetting).
The defendants advance several grounds for reversal: (1) the affidavit for a search warrant alleged insufficient facts to sustain the magistrate’s finding of probable…
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