United States v. Sliwo

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• renting van for co-conspirators and serving as look-out not sufficient to show agreement to join distribution conspiracy
• vacating conviction for aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute marijuana where the defendant served only as a lookout and procured an empty van
• “[C]harges of conspiracy are not to be made out by piling inference upon inference.” (citation omitted)
• “In this case, the government can point to no evidence that links Defendant to marijuana, ‘the essential object of the conspiracy.’ ”
• Government failed to prove aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute marijuana, in part because “[t]he government failed to provide any evidence of conversations between Defendant and his alleged co-conspirators.”
• listing elements of a § 846 violation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).