United States v. Allan Noel Ingman

Allan Noel Ingman was convicted for conspiring to violate the narcotics laws of the United States, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 , 963 (the conspiracy count), and for aiding and abetting in the distribution of a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 (a), (b)(1)(A), 18 U.S.C. § 2 (the substantive count). On appeal from the conspiracy conviction, he raises minor evidentiary objections and also claims to have been placed twice in jeopardy by reason of a previous trial and acquittal for participation in a drug conspiracy. His sole objection to the conviction on the substantive count is that it is based on insufficient evidence.

On July 16, 1974, the grand jury in the Western District of Washington returned a 15-count indictment, Count I of which named Ingman, twelve codefendants, and ten unindicted coconspirators as participants in a conspiracy to import quantities of cocaine, amphetamine, and marijuana, and to possess these with intent to distribute in the United States. On November 19, 1974 the same grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging in its first count that Ingman and five others conspired to import quantities of amphetamine, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and…