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123485P.pdf 04/30/2013 United States v. James Tebeau
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3485
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Wollman and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. District court did not err in determining
that defendant, the owner of property he used for music festivals, may be
indicted under 21 U.S.C. Sec. 856(a)(2) for making a property available
for drug distribution without any further illegal purpose ; the statute does
not require proof that defendant had the illegal purpose to use,
manufacture, sell or distribute a controlled substance, as it is sufficient
that he intended to make his property available to others who had that
purpose; this interpretation of the statute does not violate the Fifth
Amendment due process clause or defendant's First Amendment rights;
indictment satisfied the requirements of Fed. R. Crim. P. 7(c).