U.S. v. Medina

Record contained sufficient evidence to support Dist. Ct.’s finding in bench trial that defendant was guilty of drug distribution conspiracy charge, where: (1) record contained testimony of co-conspirator, four mail receipts and testimonies of Puerto Rican police officers who arrested defendant and found in his car defendant’s birth certificate and four mail receipts for packages sent to co-conspirator who told Wisconsin police that defendant had repeatedly sent him packages containing cocaine; and (2) forensic scientists determined that one intercepted package contained cocaine and had defendant’s fingerprints inside package. While defendant argued that he was entitled to acquittal finding as matter of law because government’s witnesses were not credible, defendant’s arguments did not demonstrate that government’s proffered evidence was either physically impossible or otherwise unbelievable. Moreover, defendant could not otherwise prevail on appeal, since credibility determinations are best handled by trier-of-fact and not appellate court.