Court Opinion

ID: 9479187
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:10:51.705644+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:52.589768
License: Public Domain

McKAY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting in part:
I must dissent from that portion of the court’s opinion that depends on its conclusion that there was sufficient evidence to prove a single conspiracy. In addition to the reasons set out in my dissents in United States v. Heath, 580 F.2d 1011 (1978); United States v. Watson, 594 F.2d 1330 (1979); and United States v. Dickey, 736 F.2d 571 (1984), I must add my observation that when it comes to the evidence showing the rim that connects the spokes (Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 66 S.Ct. 1239, 90 L.Ed. 1557 (1946); and United States v. Butler, 494 F.2d 1246 (10th Cir.1974)), in my view we are not faithfully applying the mandate of Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, 477 U.S. 242, 254, 106 S.Ct. *14802505, 2513, 91 L.Ed.2d 202 (1986), to view ' the evidence “through the prism of the substantive evidentiary burden.”