United States v. Sanders

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CURTIS L. COLLIER, Chief Judge.

Defendant Jahala Sanders’s sentencing presented the Court with an unexplored issue of law: how subsequent criminal conduct unrelated to the indictment affects the two-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under United States Sentencing Guidelines (“USSG”) § 3E1.1 when it occurs prior to the defendant’s entry of a guilty plea and does not continue after the defendant pleads guilty to the crime charged in the indictment. For the following reasons, the Court holds the two-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility should be more…