United States v. Arnold

OPINION AND ORDER

JONES, District Judge.

In this criminal case, I must resolve the defendant’s objections to the probation officer’s determination of the appropriate sentencing guideline as contained in the presentence investigation report, as well as decide the defendant’s motion for downward departure for aberrant behavior. For the reasons stated in this opinion, I will deny the objections and refuse to grant a downward departure.

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By a Superseding Indictment returned by the grand jury of this court, the defendant Margaret Preston Arnold was charged, along with George Taffico Pope, with…