Opinion

United States v. Raul Contreras

  • 446 F.2d 940
  • 1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 9085
Court
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Filed
Jul 7, 1971
Status
Published
Author
Feinberg
On the bench
Friendly, Feinberg, Mansfield
Cited by
7 cases
Authority
More cited than 24.9%

holding that "possession of cocaine constituted 'an act of * * * distributing' cocaine" where a jury necessarily found that possession was part of the "process of distributing" the drug

How later courts described this case

  • holding that "possession of cocaine constituted 'an act of * * * distributing' cocaine" where a jury necessarily found that possession was part of the "process of distributing" the drug
  • possession of 690 grams of cocaine, 17.7% pure

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

*943 FEINBERG, Circuit Judge

(concurring) :

I concur in the result, in view of the controlling authority of our en banc decision in United States v. Gonzalez, 442 F.2d 698 (2d Cir. 1971) from which I dissented.

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