United States v. Enrique Espinosa

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a rational jury could only conclude there was an intent to distribute where the defendant possessed sixty-nine pounds of cocaine in an unfurnished apartment to which the defendant had keys
• holding that the defendant's possession of 69 pounds of cocaine justified an instruction on possession with intent to distribute and that the district court did not err in refusing to give a lesser-included instruction of simple possession
• holding as admissible an expert's testimony that evidence indicated use of defendant's apartment as a \stash pad\ for money and narcotics
• observing that, in upholding the validity of warrant describing the defendant’s physical characteristics and specific location, “[t]he warrant and the accompanying, incorporated affidavit left the officers with no discretion as to whom to search”
• “record [must] clearly establish[ ] that the court was fully aware that the party did not agree with the court’s instruction” (emphasis added)
• no abuse of discretion to permit officer to state that in his opinion trade of packages was an exchange of narcotics for money

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).