United States v. Daniel E. Pressler, United States of America v. Scott Shreffler

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that where buyer and seller “conducted their business in code,” this “demonstrated a considerable degree of coordination and suggested the presence of a cooperative relationship”
• concluding that the phrase “‘offense of conviction’ includes only the substantive crime for which a particular defendant was convicted”
• noting that the use of codes is one indication of a conspiracy rather than a buyer-seller relationship
• finding insufficient evidence of a tacit agreement when alleged co-conspirators merely traveled to Philadelphia together to purchase narcotics
• distinguishing Gibbs because the issue in Pressler was whether a conspiracy existed
• distinguishing Gibbs because the issue in Pressler was whether a conspiracy existed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).