United States v. Rafael Portela, United States of America v. Francisco Villaman-Rodrguez, United States of America v. Juan A. Carrasquillo

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a conspiracy cannot exist where one of the members is a government agent because a conspiracy requires the existence of two “genuine” parties
• explaining that “a single [drug] conspiracy [exists] if the continued health of the trafficking and distribution network necessarily depends on the continued efforts of multiple suppliers”
• explaining that “a single conspiracy [exists] if the continued 49 health of the trafficking and distribution network necessarily depends on the continued efforts of multiple suppliers”
• approving a jury instruction to disregard evidence of an overt act in a drug conspiracy indictment
• affirming conviction where the indictment alleged a single conspiracy lasting through July 1996, but the district court found that it ended in May 1995
• finding common goal factor satisfied by each defendant’s “interest in furthering the distribution of cocaine”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).