Legal Opinion
United States v. Earl Edwin Pitts
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 4, 1999No. 97-4616PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge GOODWIN wrote the opinion, in which chief Judge WILKINSON and Judge TRAXLER joined.
OPINION
GOODWIN, District Judge:
Former FBI agent Earl Edwin Pitts pled guilty on February 28, 1997 to one count of conspiracy to commit espionage and one count of attempted, espionage in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 794. Pitts now challenges his sentence. He argues that the convictions for the two offenses should have been grouped under the United States Sentencing Guidelines (Guidelines). Next, Pitts argues that the district court erred in departing upward for an extraordinary…
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