Key legal question
Whether the appellate court's assessment of the evidence regarding the cocaine transaction was arbitrary under Art. 9 BV.
Extracted holding
The assessment was not arbitrary; the complaint failed because the petitioner was trying to acquire at least average-quality cocaine, and the statistical purity issue did not change the legal outcome.
Extracted reasoning
Arbitrariness requires a manifestly untenable factual finding. The complainant's own arguments showed he would not buy poor-quality goods, so he was aiming at commercial cocaine of at least average quality. On the court's statistics, such cocaine would exceed the 18 g pure substance threshold for a serious case.