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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
- Subject: Re: Legal Lemurs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.041831.17148@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 04:18:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.232340.14869@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (vance kochenderfer) writes:
- >
- >Someone asked if there was any law prohibiting keeping a lemur as a pet.
- >A short search of LEXIS/NEXIS turned up the following court cases...
- >
- >
- > ANNOTATION
- > SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE THAT POSSESSOR OF CONTROLLED
- > SUBSTANCE OTHER THAN COCAINE, HEROIN, OR MARIJUANA HAD
- > INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE IT, SO AS TO VIOLATE 21 USCS @
- > 841(a)(1)
- >
- > Martin J. McMahon, J.D.
- >
- > 80 A.L.R. Fed. 507
- >
- >[*7] Methaqualone
- >
- > In the following cases, involving possession of methaqualone, courts held or
- >implied that the evidence of intent to distribute was sufficient to constitute a
- >violation of 21 USCS @ 841(a)(1).
- >
- > In United States v Buettner-Janusch (1980, SD NY) 500 F Supp 1285, affd on
- >other grounds (CA2 NY) 646 F2d 759, cert den 454 US 830, 70 L Ed 2d 107, 102 S
- >Ct 126--a prosecution for possession of methaqualone with intent to distribute
- >in violation of 21 USCS @ 841(a)(1), based on six plastic jars containing
- >methaqualone in various stages of purification, which were seized from the
- >defendant's laboratory during a government search--the court held the evidence
- >more than sufficient to sustain the guilty verdict and denied the defendant's
- >motion for judgment of acquittal or a new trial. The court noted that the
- >defendant and his coconspirators, who allegedly were involved in lemur
- >research, had purchased enough raw material to make sufficient methaqualone to
- >drug all the lemurs in the United States and keep them in a perpetual state of
- >euphoria and that the evidence also included a note written by the defendant
-
- Anyone out there got answers to the following questions?
- 1) how did the court determine that the level of methaqualone that
- could be made would be sufficient to keep all the lemurs in the USA
- in a perpetual state of euphoria?
- 2) how many lemurs ARE there in the USA?
- 3) were the lemur researchers doing research on how to keep lemurs
- happy? And if so, why?
-
- >concerning a step in the manufacturing of LSD and included sodium barbitol and
- >precursors of LSD seized from the defendant's basement storage area. The court,
- >in considering the propriety of certain remarks made in the prosecutor's
- >summation, stated that no reasonable juror could have put much stock in the
- >defendant's contention that he was manufacturing drugs not for street use, but
- >solely in connection with his highly scientific lemur research, which
- >allegedly necessitated a higher quality drug than concededly available from
- >licensed manufacturing chemists required to adhere to purity standards of the
- >United States pharmacopoeia.
-