Legal Opinion
United States v. Howard Eugene Leasure
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 10, 2003No. 01-50395PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge.
Howard Eugene Leasure appeals his sentence and conviction for establishing a narcotics manufacturing laboratory in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(2). Principally at issue is whether the government bears the burden of proving at sentencing that a convicted narcotics laboratory operator actually participated in the underlying drug offense under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.8. Leasure contends that imposing that burden upon the defendant is constitutionally defective as violative of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, his Fifth Amendment privilege against…
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