Southern Holdings & Securities Corp. v. Kentucky River Coal Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “no threshold level of organizational sophistication is necessary to the formation of a conspiracy”
• holding that t-shirts found in the defendant's bedroom that contained gang references and violent language were relevant and admissible because the Government's theory was that drug dealers who were members of the gang were in the charged conspiracy
• noting that “the existence of a drug conspiracy based on monopolistic conduct is not novel”
• applying harmless error review to the exclusion of defendants from a portion of voir due and plain error review to defendants’ exclusion from peremptory challenges
• affirming the district court’s overruling of Batson challenge where prosecutor was unaware that stricken jurors were African- American
• analyzing in detail findings underlying district court’s determination of drug quantity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).