Pope v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “The next day, Rhinehart met with Gordon to discuss future transactions. During the course of the conversation, Rhine-hart told Gordon that he had “flushed” the crack cocaine during the Department’s search of his residence. On September 26, 1996, Gordon and his nephew, Spencer, gave Rhinehart another bag of crack - cocaine. Spencer stayed with Rhinehart while he sold some of the crack cocaine. On September 27, 1996, Rhinehart met with agents and turned over the proceeds from the sale and the remaining crack cocaine. At that time, the agents gave Rhinehart $500 in marked money to pay Gordon for the crack cocaine that he had “fronted” him. In a recorded conversation, Rhinehart' set up another transaction with Gordon. Gordon indicated that he' needed to contact Spencer. Rhinehart was then instructed to meet Spencer at Gordon’s car wash. At the car wash, Spencer gave Rhinehart two bags of crack cocaine, weighing 9.4 grams and 9.8 grams respectively, and collected $500 for a previous transaction. Rhinehart then left, met with the ágents, and turned over the crack cocaine. On September 30,1996, Rhinehart paged Gordon to arrange a meeting time so that he could pay for the two additional bags of crack-cocaine. The agents gave Rhinehart $1,000 in marked money and equipped him with a surveillance wire. Rhinehart met with Spencer at a designated location. He then gave Spencer the money received from the sale of the crack cocaine that. was purchased earlier from Gordon. Spencer left and t”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pope v. Gordon