United States v. Joe Long

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• single fleeting reference to a murder unconnected to the case introduced inadvertently and never discussed again over the course of a lengthy trial does not give rise to a mistrial
• “Standing alone, … sales on credit [cannot] sufficiently distinguish a conspiracy from an ordinary buyer-seller relationship.” (cita- tions omitted)
• “Standing alone, … sales on credit [cannot] sufficiently distinguish a conspiracy from an ordinary buyer-seller relationship.” (cita- tions omitted)
• “Both parties ... share the common objective of reselling the drugs since resale is the means of closing out the credit transaction.”
• Alleyne errors did not satisfy plain-error standard where there was \no real possibility\ that a jury would have failed to make required findings
• “The government may … not rely solely on purchases and sales, which after all are present in both buyer-seller and conspiracy arrangements.… Standing alone, []large-quantity sales … can[not] sufficiently distinguish a conspiracy from an ordinary buyer- seller relationship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).