Legal Opinion
United States v. Thomas Rettig, United States of America v. Gary Nowak
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 25, 1979No. 76-1407, 76-1963PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:
Rettig and Nowak appeal from judgments of conviction entered after a jury found them guilty of multiple conspiracies to import cocaine and to possess cocaine with intent to distribute. 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, 952, 960, 963. We reverse the convictions of both appellants.
The indictment charged that on several occasions Rettig or Nowak or both went to Lima, Peru, purchased cocaine from a Peruvian source, and then gave the cocaine to hired couriers to carry back to the United States by various clandestine methods. Witnesses for the Government testified that Rettig and…
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