Posts Tagged ‘Federal Sentencing Guidelines’
Third Circuit: Mere Physical Proximity of Guns to Drugs Not Enough for Sentencing Enhancement
Caroline Vodzak reports at Vodzaklegal that the Third Circuit has found that mere spatial proximity of guns to drugs is not sufficient to enhance a defendant’s sentence of drug possession without a specific finding of fact that the gun “facilitated or had the potential for facilitating the possession of drugs.” Mr. West was caught in…
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There is a moment in most great horror movies where the evil presence/bad guy/ghost/homicidal maniac takes out a character who has it coming. For a moment, the audience applauds the wicked antagonist. Think of Jason from Friday the 13th taking out a weaselly teen or the scene in Jurassic Park where the velociraptors eat Dennis…
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