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UNITED STATES v. FINCHER

No. 83-8037.

723 F.2d 862 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lynwood FINCHER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 19, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret Johnson, Macon, Ga., court-appointed, for defendant-appellant.

W. Louis Sands, Asst. U.S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before ANDERSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 19, 1984.

DUMBAULD, District Judge:

Appellant here seeks to escape punishment for violation of the general conspiracy statute (18 U.S.C. 371) by invoking the settled doctrine that such a conspiracy is not established if the only alleged conspirators are the defendant and a government agent. However, we affirm on the equally well settled corollary doctrine that a government agent may serve as a "link" between "genuine...

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