Opinion ID: 195094
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Milne Testimony. Milne (a self-confessed

Text: 1. Milne Testimony. coconspirator) served as the wellspring of the first statement. He testified that a defendant, Edward Welch, told him that the police noticed cocaine on his (Welch's) bed in the course of executing a search warrant. The district court found that the declarant, Welch, was a coconspirator, and that Welch's statement was made during and in furtherance of the conspiracy. The finding is fully sustainable. Both Coriaty and Milne testified that Welch sold them cocaine he had purchased from David Sepulveda (an arrangement that numerous other witnesses corroborated). This evidence encourages, if it does not demand, the conclusion that Welch worked hand in glove with Sepulveda. A pattern of drug sales between two individuals, looking toward resale to third persons, together with appropriate contextual detail, can support a finding that the two individuals were jointly involved in a drugtrafficking conspiracy. See United States v. Moran, 984 F.2d 1299, 1303 (1st Cir. 1993); United States v. Glenn, 828 F.2d 855, 857-58 (1st Cir. 1987). The record likewise justifies the conclusion that Welch's statements to Milne were made during and in furtherance of the conspiracy. We think it is common ground and common sense that the reporting of significant events by one coconspirator to another advances the conspiracy. See United States v. Smith, 833 F.2d 213, 219 (10th Cir. 1987). 2. Rice Testimony. Another government witness, John