Legal Opinion
United States v. Patricia Davidson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 31, 1993No. 92-7315PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
Patricia Davidson appeals from the district court’s decision to depart upward in imposing a sentence under the United States Sentencing Guidelines. Finding that any error in the district court’s application of the Guidelines was harmless, we affirm.
I
In 1988, Patricia Davidson devised a scheme with her husband, Ronnie Davidson, and her brother, Ronald Coots, to por tray the accidental death of Ronnie Davidson in order to collect life insurance and pension benefits. Coots caused a sailboat to explode during a staged fishing excursion and falsely reported that Ronnie Davidson…
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