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· 1/21/1999

United States v. Dekle

Citations

  • 165 F.3d 826
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 694
  • 1999 WL 22682

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that multiple transactions which “revealed nothing more than isolated purchases for personal consumption” do not support a conspiracy conviction
  • explaining that “the existence of a simple buyer-seller relationship alone does not furnish the requisite evidence of a conspiratorial agreement”
  • determining evidence that a doctor issued at least 129 prescriptions for controlled substances to 4 women in exchange for sexual acts or nude photographs was insufficient to establish a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances
  • “This joint objective is missing where the conspiracy is based on an agreement between a buyer and a seller for the sale of drugs.”

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Judges: Birch, Barkett, Alaimo

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