United States v. Vincent Papa

How courts have described this case

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• no double jeopardy in narcotics conspiracies when conspiracies involve different people and times
• “[Defendant] was the director of two unrelated chains distributing narcotics; the mere fact that he supervised each chain does not transform two separate conspiracies into one.”
• one common central figure—double jeopardy claim rejected despite overlap of time and common location
• defendant bears burden of proof on double jeopardy claim
• defendant acted as “fence” for two conspiracies
• factors 2, 3, 5, 8

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).