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U.S. v. Fitz, No. 02-1771 (8th Cir.) (317 F.3d 878) (January 28, 2003) (Judge Gerald W. Heaney)

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2003 published in Punch and Jurists January 13, 2003
Filed under: Conspiracy, Punch And Jurists.

Here the Court vacated a drug conspiracy conviction due to insufficient evidence in a case where the Government’s evidence was so weak that the Court was forced to conclude that it could not ratify a verdict “based on unsupported speculation”.

This highly improbable decision involved the reversal of the drug ...

 

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