# United States v. Raul Contreras

> Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · July 7, 1971 · 446 F.2d 940

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9457194

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Raul CONTRERAS, Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- **Decided:** July 7, 1971
- **Citations:** 446 F.2d 940; 1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 9085
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Feinberg
- **Judges:** Friendly, Feinberg, Mansfield
- **Cited by:** 7 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9457194

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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

## Opinion text

*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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