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UNITED STATES v. HOOKER

No. 75-1415.

541 F.2d 300 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John H. Perry HOOKER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 7, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul E. Kennedy, Boston, Mass., with whom John A. Burgess Associates, Ltd., Montpelier, Vt., were on brief, for defendant-appellant.

Charles E. Chase, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., with whom James N. Gabriel, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

After a jury trial appellant was convicted on a 29 count indictment charging him with distributing and conspiring to distribute prescriptions for controlled substances in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 and 846 (1970).1 Appellant now challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and also claims that the prosecutor's comments on the evidence in his closing argument were prejudicial. Our analysis of these claims...

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