United States v. Nawanna

MARK W. BENNETT, U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION ...944 *945A. Pre-Sentencing Proceedings ...945

B. Methamphetamine Guidelines Arguments ...947

II. LEGAL ANALYSIS ...949

A. Policy Disagreements With Guidelines ...949

1. Standards ...949

2. Policy disagreement with the methamphetamine Guidelines ...950

a. Previously recognized flaws ...950

b. The flaw of drug purity as a proxy for culpability ...951

B. Application ...955

III. CONCLUSION ...957

The United States Sentencing Guidelines1 differentiate between methamphetamine mixture and actual (pure) methamphetamine or "ice."2 That…