United States v. Villareal-Amarillas

LOKEN, Chief Judge.

Manuel Villareal-Amarillas and Juan Gonzalez pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. At sentencing, a police officer and three cooperating witnesses testified that the conspirators in fact distributed more than fifteen kilograms of methamphetamine, but the district court limited its drug quantity finding to the amount admitted in the guilty pleas— more than 500 grams but less than 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine. The government appealed the resulting sentences. We vacated the sentences and remanded for more specific drug quantity…