Legal Opinion
United States v. Michael A. Sowels
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 5, 1993No. 92-1670PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:
This is a case about a postal employee who stole 110 credit cards but was apprehended before he could use them. In calculating the sentence under U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1, the district court determined that the loss resulting from the theft equals the combined credit limits of all the cards. Because the district court did not clearly err, we affirm.
I
Michael A. Sowels (Sowels) pleaded guilty to theft of mail from a post office and aiding and abetting the commission of that offense in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1708 and 2. According to the factual resume accompanying the…
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