U.S. v. Mercer, No. 97-3224 (11th Cir.) (165 F.3d 1331) (January 25, 1999) (Per Curiam)
Here the Eleventh Circuit held that evidence of the defendant's buyer-seller relationship with an unnamed source was insufficient to establish the existence of a conspiracy.
Citing U.S. v. Townsend, 924 F.2d 1385, 1394 (7th Cir. 1991), the Court stated: "The buy-sell transaction is simply not probative of an agreement to ...
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