Court Opinion

ID: 9465523
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 00:48:35.544178+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:13.219642
License: Public Domain

GEE, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and in part dissenting:
I concur in the opinion of the court excepting its reversal of the conviction on Count 4. Contris declared an intention to deliver horse fat, he returned thereafter to Halfway House, and the intended amount of fat was later found there — unlabelled. No source of it other than Contris was apparent. While I agree that these facts do not compel a finding of guilt as a logical necessity, I cannot say that, viewed most favorably to the prevailing party, they are insufficient to permit a reasonable fact-finder to conclude that they exclude all reasonable hypotheses of innocence. I would affirm all convictions.