Opinion ID: 782607
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Heading: Cocaine Quantities Reasonably Foreseeable By Jackson

Text: 75 Although the foregoing calculations, standing alone, are sufficient to uphold the jury's verdict, there is yet another reason to vacate the district court's grant of Jackson's Rule 29 motion: Jackson was responsible for the amounts that Sinkler conspired to import on her trips to Jamaica without Jackson in May and November of 1999 if those quantities were reasonably foreseeable by him. 76 Under fundamental conspiracy law Jackson is responsible for any amount of cocaine that his co-conspirators agreed to import so long as these amounts were within the scope of the conspiracy and reasonably foreseeable by him. Here, based on the evidence adduced at trial, a rational jury could have determined that the cocaine that Sinkler agreed to smuggle in May and November 1999 lay within the scope of Jackson's conspiratorial agreement and was, therefore, reasonably foreseeable by him. 77 Even though Jackson did not accompany Sinkler on these trips, the facts that Sinkler was going to Jamaica to smuggle cocaine and the amount that Sinkler had conspired to import on these occasions could easily be found to be reasonably foreseeable by Jackson. Particularly with respect to the November 1999 trip, which Jackson had agreed to take with Sinkler but later postponed when his child was born, there can be little question that Jackson was aware of Sinkler's smuggling activities, as well as the amount of cocaine that she normally agreed to import on a given trip. In short, a rational jury could have found that Jackson was responsible for an additional 1 kilogram of cocaine based on Sinkler's smuggling trips in May and November 1999. 78 Because of the copious evidence supporting the jury's verdict that Jackson conspired to import 5 or more kilograms of cocaine, we need not address the Government's additional arguments that Jackson was responsible for cocaine smuggled by other co-conspirators. 79 In sum, we hold that, under the evidence adduced at trial, a rational jury could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that Jackson conspired to import 5 or more kilograms of cocaine.