Legal Opinion
United States v. Joseph B. Warren
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 21, 1999No. 98-6488PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
RENDELL, Circuit Judge.
In this sentencing appeal, we are presented with the dilemma of sentencing a courier who brought a large quantity of drugs into the country but who, from the very inception of the transaction, was cooperating with the authorities, to whom he revealed his plans. The District Court rejected Warren’s plea for special probation and, instead, departed upward to the maximum statutory penalty. Warren challenges the adequacy of notice of the District Court’s upward departure and the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the grounds given for the upward…
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