United States v. Demettris Cruse

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• concluding that “drug quantity is not an element of a drug conspiracy under § 841(a)(1)”
• concluding that evidence of a defendant's longtime supplying of drugs for resale within a housing project is sufficient to establish that the defendant knowingly participated in a drug-distribution conspiracy
• concluding that evidence of a defendant’s longtime No. 17-2976 9 supplying of drugs for resale within a housing project is sufficient to establish that the defendant knowingly participated in a drug-distribution conspiracy
• noting that arguments raised for the first time in a reply brief are waived
• holding that the failure to give the jury a Pinkerton instruction as to drug quantity did not affect the defendant's substantial rights, but noting that, if it had, \the remedy for the error would be resentencing under the default drug-conspiracy penalty provision\
• stating this applies when “a reasonable jury could have found that the defendant was merely a buyer from the 18, 25 (1st Cir. 2010

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