# United States v. Mehrzad Arbane

> Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · April 21, 2006 · 446 F.3d 1223

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9415978

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mehrzad ARBANE, A.K.A. Tony, A.K.A. El Turco, A.K.A. Achi Saba, Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- **Decided:** April 21, 2006
- **Citations:** 446 F.3d 1223; 2006 WL 1045204
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Conway
- **Judges:** Barkett, Wilson, Conway
- **Cited by:** 38 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating “it is axiomatic that you cannot have a conspiracy without an agreement between two or more culpable conspirators.”

## Opinion text

CONWAY, District Judge,
concurring specially:
I concur in the result. There is sufficient circumstantial evidence that Arbane agreed with Velez (the confidential informant) to import cocaine into the United States from Ecuador. There is also sufficient circumstantial evidence that other persons identified by the Government in its brief were participants in the conspiracy to import drugs out of Ecuador. There is no evidence that any of the other unin-dicted co-conspirators knew that the drugs were to be imported into the United States. In order to have a conspiracy to import drugs into the United States at least one person, other than the confidential informant, had to agree with Arbane to that essential element of the conspiracy.

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