U.S. v. Nunez

Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
Conspiracy
Citation
Case Number: 
No. 11-1927
Decision Date: 
March 9, 2012
Federal District: 
N.D. Ill., E. Div.
Holding: 
Affirmed
Record contained sufficient evidence to support jury's guilty verdict on charge of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, even though defendant argued that record showed at most only buyer-seller relationship. Record showed that sufficient relationship existed between defendant and his indirect drug supplier to establish conspiracy where defendant made attempt to save drug business of supplier by warning supplier's family of supplier's arrest so that they had opportunity to remove supplier's drugs from his home in effort to prevent their detection by police.