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Sixth Circuit: Sentence Enhancement Inapplicable, Sales of Guns and Drugs Separate
Loaded on March 16, 2018
by Dale Chappell
published in Criminal Legal News
April, 2018, page 38
Filed under:
Sentencing,
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines,
Overdetention.
Location:
United States of America.
by Dale Chappell
Where the negotiation of each transaction was “fully consummated” before the next, the sale of guns and drugs separately was not enough to apply a guideline enhancement, the Sixth Circuit held December 5, 2017.
Darryl Jackson sold drugs and guns to a confidential informant (“CI”), but not ...
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