Opinion ID: 598512
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: sufficiency of the evidence

Text: 18 Regarding Count One (conspiracy), Kenneth concedes that evidence showed him to have used cocaine and also to have distributed drugs from his personal supply to others. However, he theorizes that such activity does not show agreement, as required for a conspiracy conviction. 19 Though the evidence Kenneth summarizes may not necessarily support the existence of an agreement, the testimony of two coconspirators does. Deborah Young testified that Kenneth had helped her and other conspirators package drugs at one of the sites raided by police. She also told of Kenneth's distributing drugs from the same address. Freda Wise and Gregory Davis, other coconspirators, described instances where Kenneth accompanied Defendant-Appellant Harris on deliveries of narcotics to drug houses. A disinterested witness told of Kenneth's frequent presence at one of Harris's rented apartments, another drug distribution locale. Finally, during one of the many raids, police arrested Harris, in the midst of drugs, weapons, and drug paraphernalia. The circumstantial strength of this evidence, when taken as a whole, clearly would allow a reasonable jury to convict Kenneth of having conspired under Count One. 20 Kenneth's Count Two theory, given only a paragraph in his brief, similarly fails. Though admitting possession of a single rock of cocaine and a handgun when arrested on April 29, 1988, Kenneth asserts that the Government did not show that he possessed the drug with intent to distribute. However, as noted previously, police arrested Kenneth during the raid of a house with drugs, weapons, and drug paraphernalia in open view. When considering this quality along with the other evidence indicating Kenneth's drug distribution activities, justification for the jury's decision is plain.