Legal Opinion
United States v. Stewart Foss
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 31, 1974No. 74-1083PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
James W. Coveney, Jr. and Stewart Foss pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the illegal distribution of cocaine. 21 U.S.C. § 841. They contend on appeal that the district court abused its discretion by sentencing each of them to three years’ imprisonment and denying their subsequent motion for reduction of sentence. Their principal complaint is that the court failed to “individualize” their sentences imposing imprisonment only because of a belief that “[h]ard narcotics demand hard sentences.”
The offenses arise from a single transaction. Coveney, at the…
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