United States v. Gerald Arnett Ghant, United States of America v. Gregory R. Nichols

How courts have described this case

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• holding that two alleged conspiracies were similar to each other (both distributing cocaine) and close in time (within a year
• noting that even if there were multiple conspiracies, sufficient evidence supported a finding that the defendant participated in all of them
• noting that a defendant may be prejudiced by the “spillover” of evidence from one conspiracy to another
• “[The defendant] has cited no case in which, despite evidence that the defendant participated in all of the conspiracies, a variance between the number of conspiracies charged and the number proven was found to have prejudiced the defendant.”
• time is not a material element of a 12 conspiracy charge
• relying on a similar instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).