Legal Opinion
United States v. Davis
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 3, 2001No. 00-2281PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
John Davis argues that this is one of those rare instances in which the government should have been compelled to file a motion warranting that a defendant had provided substantial assistance to the government, with the consequence that the district court could then have given Davis a downward departure from the four year maximum sentence he did receive. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e); U.S.S.G. § 5K1.1. It is undisputed that Davis provided assistance to the government in its investigation of other drug traffickers, although he was admittedly reticent about a murder in Boston. The…
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