Legal Opinion
United States v. Duarte
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 23, 2001No. 00-1136PublishedCited by 433 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Edward F. Duarte, Jr., entered a guilty plea to multiple counts of possessing marijuana with intent to distribute and conspiring to possess marijuana with intent to distribute. The district court imposed a 151-month incar-cerative sentence. Duarte appeals, asserting that the lower court’s determination of drug quantity under a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard elevated his sentence above the five-year statutory maximum for trafficking in unspecified amounts of marijuana and thereby contravened the rule laid down in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S.…
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