United States v. Benjamin T. Thornton

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• concluding that no one could claim that a heroin stash worth $44,000 wholesale was for personal use only
• holding $44,000 of heroin was sufficient to deny a lesser-included instruction on simple possession
• instruction unnecessary where “no one could claim, and appellant did not argue, that [$44,000 worth] of heroin, at such a degree of purity, was consistent with merely personal use”
• “within the apartment, in plain view, were articles employed to prepare heroin for distribution,” including rubber gloves, surgical face masks, a large number of small plastic bags, chemicals used for the preparation of heroin, and devices used to prepare drugs for sale

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