United States v. Mason Townsend, Luis E. Diaz, Orlando Nunez, Dorothy Taylor, Carlos Mejia, Joseph Angel Claudio, and Isabel Marquez

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• holding that on appeal, a jury’s verdict will not be negated on the chance “that the jury convicted on a ground that was not supported by adequate evidence when there existed alternative grounds for which the evidence was sufficient”
• explaining that mere knowledge of illegality does not equate with agreement to join illegality
• describing members of a conspiracy as either “mutually dependent on one another” or “rendering] mutual support”
• finding no prejudice where the evidence against the defendant “was strong enough to overcome any prejudice that may have resulted from the admission of evidence relevant only to other defendants”
• finding no prejudice where the evidence against the defendant “was strong enough to overcome any prejudice that may have resulted from the admission of evidence relevant only to other defendants”
• determining there was no prejudice where \none of the defendants [could] claim that their sentences were increased on the basis of drug transactions that were not attributable to the limited conspiracies in which they participated\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).