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No. 12-4361
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore.
Richard D. Bennett, District Judge.
(1:10-cr-00775-RDB-7)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Wilbert Sampson was convicted by a jury of one count
of
conspiracy
to
distribute
and
possess
with
intent
to
appeals,
sufficient
contending
evidence
of
that
the
Government
his
involvement
did
in
not
present
conspiracy
to
sufficiency
of
the
evidence
determining
whether,
in
Government,
there
substantial
support
evidence
the
is
the
conviction.
that
most
evidence
Id.
reasonable
supporting
light
United States v.
favorable
in
the
Substantial
finder
of
conviction
fact
to
by
the
record
to
evidence
is
could
accept
as
beyond
marks omitted).
appropriate
only
reasonable
doubt.
Id.
(internal
quotation
cases
where
the
Governments
failure
to
more
people
to
possess
drugs
with
intent
to
distribute,
United
A drug
the
defendant
members.
knew
all
of
the
conspiracys
details
or
Id.
While
Sampson
does
not
contest
the
existence
of
also
including
argues
several
of
that
various
Sampsons
Government
alleged
witnesses
co-conspirators
had
and
content
constitute
substantial
evidence
of
conclude
that
the
Governments
evidence
was
The phone
unmistakably
conversations
suggest
consisted
drug
of
trafficking
suspicious
transactions.
language,
including
member
drug-related
present
of
the
conspiracy
communications.
evidence
that
that
he
While
all
of
its
used
the
exclusively
Government
witnesses
knew
did
for
and
not
could
or
was
ever
caught
possessing
heroin,
it
was
not
See Green,
find
knowingly
that
Sampson
participated
in
conspiracy
to
See
id.
Accordingly,
dispense
with
contentions
are
oral
we
affirm
argument
adequately
Sampsons
because
presented
in
the
the
conviction.
facts
We
and
legal
materials
before
this Court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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