United States of America, Cross-Appellant/appellee v. James Randall Sanders, Appellant/cross-Appellee

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• concluding that the defendant’s action in dividing his supply of methamphetamine into “twenty packets, each containing about a one-quarter gram of methamphetamine,” was additional evidence to support a conviction on the charge of intent to distribute controlled substances
• “Intent to distribute controlled substances may be proved by either direct evidence or circumstantial evidence.”
• small amount of contraband may combine with circumstantial evidence to support finding of intent to distribute
• “The law is well-settled that a district court's assessment of witness credibility is quintessentially a judgment call and virtually unassailable on appeal.” (citation omitted)
• “Even if we were to assume there was prosecutorial misconduct during the grand jury proceedings, the petit jury’s guilty verdict rendered those errors harmless.”
• noting officers found methamphetamine in a film canister

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).