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U.S. v. WITEK

No. 92-3135.

61 F.3d 819 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward WITEK; Reginal M. Hardy, a/k/a "Reggie", a/k/a "Pumpkin"; Ralston Randolph Wright, a/k/a "Thomas Theodore Dooley"; Tommie Dixon; John Horace Dixon, a/k/a "Bea"; Earl A. Green; George Calhoun; Claudette Colleen Hubbard; Alfred Bain, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 17, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark H. Randall, Longwood, FL, for Witek.

Michael W. Nielsen, Dowdy & Nielsen, Winter Springs, FL, for Hardy.

Theresa Anderson, Abeles & Anderson, P.A., DeBary, FL, for Wright.

Christopher L. Smith, Winter Springs, FL, for Dixon.

Mark M. O'Mara, Winter Park, FL, for John Dixon.

Albert F. Tellechea, Orlando, FL, for Green.

Michael L. Irwin, Orlando, FL, for Calhoun.

Vincent W. Howard, Jr., Howard & Reyes, Chartered, Sanford, FL, for Bain.

Alexander Zouzoulas, Zouzoulas & Wheeler, P.A., Lori Wheeler, Orlando, FL, for Hubbard.

Cynthia Hawkins, Asst. U.S. Atty., Orlando, FL, Tamra Phipps, Kathy J.M. Peluso, Asst. U.S. Attys., Tampa, FL, for U.S.

Before DUBINA and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and COHILL, Senior District Judge.

BLACK, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Ralston Wright was convicted of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise (CCE) under 21 U.S.C.A. § 848 (West Supp. 1995). We must decide whether the Government presented sufficient evidence to prove Wright's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.1 We conclude that it did not, and vacate Wright's CCE conviction.

I. BACKGROUND

In late 1991 and early 1992, Ralston Wright and his girlfriend...

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