Opinion ID: 2973197
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Heading: Sufficiency of the Conviction

Text: In view of the quantity of drugs possessed by the defendant and the circumstances of their seizure, the jury could properly find that the defendant “(1) knowingly; (2) possessed a controlled substance; (3) with the intent to distribute” the drugs. No more is needed to sustain the conviction, see, e.g., United States v. Gibbs, 182 F.3d 408, 424 (6th Cir. 1999), except to note that the defendant’s intent to distribute the drugs to others, rather than to keep them for his own use, can reasonably be inferred from their quantity. See United States v. Jackson, 55 F.3d 1219, 1226 (6th Cir. 1995).