United States v. Donald Johnstone

How courts have described this case

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• “It is neither an element of [the conspiracy charge] nor a constitutional requirement that a defendant have committed an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
• “The occurrence of the underlying drug felony is a fact necessary to finding a violation of § 843(b).”
• \The occurrence of [an] underlying drug felony is a fact necessary to finding a violation of S 843(b).\
• failure to correctly instruct jury concerning the government's duty to prove the commission of the underlying offense under Sec. 843(b) was harmless since the defendant was convicted of the only predicate offense charged under Sec. 843(b)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).