Key legal question
Whether the appellate court's assessment of intercepted telephone conversations and circumstantial evidence was arbitrary or violated in dubio pro reo.
Extracted holding
The evidentiary assessment was not arbitrary; the circumstantial chain provided a sufficient factual basis for conviction, and no serious doubts remained.
Extracted reasoning
The surrounding context, the coded language in the calls, and the payment reference supported the inference of a cocaine transaction. The defendant's alternative explanations were unsupported and did not render the finding untenable.