U.S. v. Claybrooks

Record contained sufficient evidence to support jury’s guilty verdict on drug conspiracy charge stemming from long series of drug sales between defendant and his drug supplier. Jury could properly find existence of drug conspiracy, where defendant’s drug supplier testified that, for period of seven years, he regularly provided defendant with large quantities of drugs, as well as allowed defendant to pay for said drugs after reselling them to customers and to return drugs if he could not resell them at retail. Supplier additionally stated that defendant acted as his agent by identifying customers willing to purchase drugs in bulk quantities. However, defendant was entitled to new sentencing hearing, where Dist. Ct. failed to describe reliable evidence it used to support drug quantity finding.