Legal Opinion
United States v. Melvin Marable and Douglas E. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 29, 1978No. 77-5413PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.
MULTI PARTY-MULTI ATTACK
Melvin Marable, Douglas Jones, Horace Jones, and Clarence Cole, Jr. were jointly indicted in a three-count indictment for drug offenses.
Count 1 charged all four men with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin.
Count 2 charged Horace Jones with the substantive offense of distributing heroin.
Count 3 charged that Clarence Cole, Jr. and Douglas Jones possessed heroin with the intent to distribute it.
All counts were grounded on 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1).
Cole pled guilty. A jury convicted the other three, but only…
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