Opinion ID: 658352
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Dwain Baker

Text: 185 Dwain Baker argues that his CCE conviction must be reversed because there was insufficient evidence that he organized, managed, or supervised at least five people in connection with his series of drug offenses. The government, however, presented evidence from which a rational juror could have found this element satisfied. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, Dwain Baker recruited and used Kevin Acheson as a purchaser of chemicals and a distributor of methamphetamine; directed Darrel Fitch to pick up three to four pounds of methamphetamine and place it in Baker's car, and instructed Fitch regarding packaging of newly manufactured methamphetamine; provided Ed George with methamphetamine to sell on behalf of the Company and instructed George to obtain chemicals and manufacturing equipment; ordered Jon Grant to transport five to ten pounds of methamphetamine to San Diego in the air cleaners of Grant's truck and accompanied Grant on the trip; and instructed Mike Shoaf to transport nine pounds of methamphetamine in Baker's car, deliver it to Baker in San Diego, and dig up and deliver buried methamphetamine in advance of FBI raids.