The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Belden, 957 F.2d 671 (9th Cir. 1992):
role was significant and important. It may not have gone directly to watering the plants or cultivating them, [but] without functioning in that role the operation would not have succeeded. And of course the record reflects that the profits were to be equally shared.
This was not clearly erroneous. See United States v. Howard, 894 F.2d 1085, 1087-88 (9th Cir.1990).
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