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Fifth Circuit: District Court Miscalculated Sentencing Guidelines Range by Implausibly Finding Defendant Would Use All Cash Proceeds of Drug Sales Seized to Purchase More Meth to Resell

Loaded on July 15, 2022 by Douglas Ankney published in Criminal Legal News August, 2022, page 30
Filed under: War on Drugs, Mandatory Minimums. Location: Texas.

by Douglas Ankney

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas erred in its drug quantity attribution by implausibly finding that Zaira Valenzuela Lujan would have used all of the $10,694 seized from her to purchase additional ...

 

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