United States v. Campos
United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
132 F. Supp. 2d 1181 (2001)
In a house search, police found only Erick Campos (defendant) possessing methamphetamine among multiple residents, along with a distribution-consistent quantity, false identification, a gun, and ammunition, plus a methamphetamine-tainted pen casing; Campos testified he was an addict who bought the unusually large supply at a bargain price for personal use and used the pen casing to ingest the drug, and a defense witness corroborated seeing Campos arrange doses for ingestion, though he never actually witnessed ingestion. The jury convicted Campos, who moved for a new trial.
Whether the government's circumstantial evidence of distribution intent was sufficiently strong to withstand a new-trial motion where the defendant presented credible, corroborated testimony of personal drug addiction and use.