guilty.

      At the joint trial of Adams and Parker, the government established the
existence of the conspiracy through numerous surveillance audio tape recordings of
co-conspirators' telephone conversations, items seized pursuant to search warrants,
and the testimony of law enforcement officers and co-conspirators. Robert Pruitt, a
co-conspirator, identified speakers on surveillance tape recordings, noted that the
speakers spoke in code in order "to elude a third ear on the phone," explained the
meaning of certain words and phrases, and testified that the recordings were
conversations of drug transactions. A government expert, after listening to a number



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       The Honorable Carol E. Jackson, United States District Judge for the Eastern
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      Rush-Bey: Right, right, right. Set a time for however.
      Adams:    All you got to do is (inaudible) tomorrow.

The jury also heard audio tape recordings of June 16, 2001, conversations between
Rush-Bey and Adams, which indicated that Rush-Bey went to Adams's mother house,
where Adams was waiting for him.

       Ernest Williams, who had pled guilty to possession of heroin, testified that later
in June 2001, pursuant to Adams's instruction, he went to Adams's mother's house and
picked up 40 ounces of heroin, which Williams thought had come from Rush-Bey,
put the heroin in the basement of an apartment that Adams had rented for him, and
allowed Parker to sample it. After sampling