Opinion ID: 198984
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Drug Ledgers

Text: 22 Both Wilfredo and David Martinez-Matta testified about drug transactions at the Davila apartment of Rosa Morales-Santiago. In his testimony, Wilfredo Martinez-Matta stated that Morales-Santiago would count the heroin proceeds and record them in a notebook. Similarly, Hidalgo-Melendez testified that Morales-Santiago recorded drug transactions in a black school notebook and, later, a brown notebook. After examining two notebooks seized from Morales-Santiago's Davila apartment in 1991, Hidalgo-Melendez stated that units marked c in the notebooks represented cristal and that each package contained ten bags of heroin. An expert witness testified that the notebooks were consistent with those kept by an illicit drug organization. He opined that the product was calculated in units and that the c units sold for $75. He noted that together the notebooks reflected sales of at least $3.5 million during one year.