POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Marvin Roth of possession with intent to distribute unlawfully a controlled substance, Talwin, and of conspiracy to distribute it. The judge sentenced him to 12 years in prison, and he appeals.
Roth was a retail druggist in Cahokia, an Illinois suburb of St. Louis. The government became interested in him when it discovered that, over a two-year period which ended in 1980 with a fire that destroyed his drugstore, the...
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