Opinion ID: 2995200
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Heading: sufficiency of the evidence

Text: Green’s final challenge to his conviction is that the trial evidence was insufficient to support his conviction, specifically, that there was insufficient evidence that it was Green who participated in the transactions with Guzman in April 1998. Challenges based on the sufficiency of the evidence are rarely successful. See United States v. Sanchez, 251 F.3d 598, 601 (7th Cir. 2001); United States v. Thornton, 197 F.3d 241, 253 (7th Cir. 1999). Our review is highly deferential to the jury and we will reverse only when the record contains no evidence, regardless of how it is weighed, from which the jury could find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Penny, 60 F.3d at 1262 (citing United States v. Rosalez-Cortez, 19 F.3d 1210, 1215 (7th Cir. 1994)). Here, Green’s admission of his participation to three law enforcement officers, as well as Cox’s and Guzman’s testimony, was more than sufficient to support the jury’s verdict.