United States v. Abraham Figueroa, Sixto Vega, Sr., Doris Santiago

How courts have described this case

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• mistaken address ‘inconsequential in light of a clear description of the name of the building and its physical appearance’
• “To sustain a conviction of possession with intent to distribute, the government must prove (1) knowing (2) possession of a controlled substance (3) with intent to distribute it.”
• \A conspiracy conviction will be upheld ... when the circumstances surrounding a person's presence at the scene of conspiratorial activity are so obvious that knowledge of its character can fairly be attributed to him.\
• “Vega’s admission that he obtained the drags from an unnamed Colombian and that he was engaged in drag trade warrants an inference of an agreement to ‘possess [the drags] with intent to distribute’ so as to sustain the conviction for conspiracy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).