United States v. Robert Edward Towe

In 1990, Robert Edward Towe pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture amphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. The district court sentenced Towe to 108 months of imprisonment and five years of supervised release. Towe appealed his sentence, arguing, inter alia, that the district court erred by grounding his base offense level on the amount of precursor chemicals actually seized by the police, rather than on the amount of amphetamine that the seized chemicals could have produced. This Court found Towe’s argument without merit and affirmed the district court’s sentence.

In 1992, Towe filed…