Newton v. Virginia

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• holding evidence of preconspiracy drug activities involving one conspiracy member not prejudicial to other defendants; jury could compartmentalize information and preconspiracy evidence did not implicate other defendants except to convince the jury that first member was a drug dealer
• holding evidence of preconspiracy drug activities involving one conspiracy member not prejudicial to other defendants; jury could compartmentalize information and preconspiracy evidence did not implicate other defendants except to convince the jury that first member was a drug dealer
• distinguishing Owens as a case where the trial evidence was unclear as to the type of drug involved in the conspiracy
• “[J]ury did not have the option of convicting ... on a different conspiracy ... but was instructed to find only one particular conspiracy and determine its members.”
• where indictment charged conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, and cocaine base, and evidence of all three drugs introduced, verdict not ambiguous

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