UNITED STATES v. CANTY

Nos. 20-2187, 21-1327.

37 F.4th 775 (2022)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Edward CANTY, III, a/k/a Demo, Defendant, Appellant. United States, Appellee, v. Melquan Jordan, a/k/a Squirrel, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 23, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luke Rosseel for appellant Edward Canty, III.

Julia Pamela Heit for appellant Melquan Jordan.

Benjamin M. Block , Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Darcie N. McElwee , U.S. Attorney, and Julia M. Lipez , Assistant U.S. Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.

Before Lynch, Selya, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


Edward Canty, III and Melquan Jordan distributed, from their individual independent supplies, heroin to users in Portland, Maine — Canty for around four months in 2016 and Jordan from the summer of 2015 to early 2017. They were prosecuted federally, not on distribution charges, but on charges that they had conspired...

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