United States v. Marius Canoy

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Marius Canoy of making a telephone call to the Kemmerer Bottling Company (“Kemmerer”) on March 28, 1989, and falsely representing that the Tylenol in the company’s medicine cabinet had been tainted with cyanide. In sentencing Canoy for this offense, the district court initially departed downward from the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range based on Canoy’s extraordinary family circumstances. On reconsideration, however, the district court concluded that our decision in United States v. Thomas, 930 F.2d 526 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, —…