United States v. Franklin Brown

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “buyer-seller relationships ... do not qualify as conspiracies,” because “[p]eople in a buyer-seller relationship have not agreed to advance further distribution of drugs,” whereas “people in conspiracies have” (emphasis omitted)
• permitting “an inference of conspir- acy” based on evidence of “repeated transactions, in whole- sale quantities, on credit”
• distinguishing credit sales from consignment and explaining that small and infrequent credits are consistent with a buyer- seller relationship
• emphasizing, as evidence of the defendant's role in a conspiracy, that his supplier \provided [the defendant] with a specially outfitted Chevrolet HHR that had a 'trap' to conceal drugs\
• explaining, in context of buyer-seller instructions in drug conspiracy cases, that our cases “do not prohibit a multi-factor approach per se” but do require careful attention to how a multi-factor instruction is formulated
• explaining, in context of buyer-seller instructions in drug conspiracy cases, that our cases “do not prohibit a multi-factor approach per se” but do require careful attention to how a multi-factor instruction is formulated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).