United States of America, Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Wendy Lynn Morgan, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant

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• finding intent of defendant to help virtual stranger import drugs, though defendant claimed to think she was importing clothing, based on (1) knowledge of contents of bag indicating awareness that bag contained drugs; (2
• admitting 5 romantic partner’s testimony under Rule 807, in part, because “[declarant] had no reason to expect 6 that [statement] would ever find its way into the hands of the police; she did not write it to curry 7 favor with them or with anyone else”
• “A conspiracy conviction cannot be sustained unless the government established beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant had the spedfic intent to violate the substantive statute.”
• statement will be admitted under Rule 807 only if “its proffer follows adequate notice to the adverse party” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• defendants personally transported into the United States packages containing ecstasy-like pills
• “Here, the government had to establish to the jury’s satisfaction beyond a reasonable doubt that [the defendant] knew that [he or] she was engaged in a conspiracy to import into the United States some controlled substance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).