SUMMERS

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Sommers v. State, 404 So. 2d 366 (Fla. 2d DCA 1981)
  ….Ct. 582, 38 L.Ed.2d 476 (1973) (possession conviction affirmed where the government circumstantially proved the existence of marijuana without the benefit of any physical evidence); Ewing v. United States, 386 F. 2d 10 (9th Cir.1967), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 991, 88 S.Ct. 1192, 19 L.Ed.2d 1299 (1968) (experienced marijuana smoker was permitted to testify as an expert that the substance the defendant had given her to smoke was marijuana). The point is that without the “mini-trial” deplored in Brown, together…
• United States v. Carmine Tramunti, 513 F.2d 1087 (2d Cir. 1975)
  …uired to prove an overt act in this conspiracy; there is authority to the effect that proof of an overt act is not a necessary element of a conspiracy charged under 21 U.S.C. § 846. Ewing v. United States, 386 F. 2d 10 (9th Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 991, 88 S.Ct. 1192, 19 L.Ed.2d 1299 (1968); Leyvas v. United States, 371 F. 2d 714 (9th Cir. 1967); United States v. Garfoli, 324 F. 2d 909 (7th Cir. 1963); United States v. DeViteri, 350 F.Supp. 550 (E.D.N.Y.1972); United States v. Gardner, 202 F.Supp.…
• United States v. Bermudez, 526 F.2d 89 (2d Cir. 1975)
  …piracy charged under 21 U.S.C. § 846.” United States v. Tramunti, 513 F. 2d 1087, 1113 n. 28 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 832, 96 S.Ct. 54, 46 L.Ed.2d 50 (1975), citing, e. g., Ewing v. United States, 386 F. 2d 10 (9th Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 991, 88 S.Ct. 1192, 19 L.Ed.2d 1299 (1968); United States v. DeViteri, 350 F.Supp. 550, 552 (E.D.N.Y.1972). In a case involving an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846, the conspiracy to distribute narcotics is in and of itself a specific crime. Since an ind…