U.S. v. Miller

Record contained sufficient evidence to support defendant’s conviction on conspiracy to distribute cocaine, even though defendant argued that record only supported existence of buyer-seller relationship between himself and his drug supplier. Drug supplier testified that he believed he had agreement with defendant to distribute drugs, and record showed existence of 6-month period, where instant drug supplier occasionally fronted defendant with cocaine and shared proceeds of drug sales. Moreover, court rejected defendant’s argument that his weekly drug purchases/sales of 3.5 grams of cocaine were too small to support drug conspiracy conviction. Dist. Ct. also did not err in barring defendant from questioning govt. witness about his 1974 felony conviction for heroin possession that would have subjected witness to 20-year sentence if tried on state charges involving recent drug distribution incident that formed basis of instant federal drug charge. Record failed to indicate that state officials were actually considering charging witness with any crime, and witness testified that his cooperation was based on hope that said cooperation would help with federal charge.