United States v. Blake

ORDER

Byron Blake was convicted on drug charges after a jury trial. On appeal he raises a litany of arguments, but only two warrant serious consideration: that the district court at sentencing erred in making its drug-quantity finding and at trial should have excluded testimony that Blake tried to intimidate a witness. The drug-quantity finding is somewhat questionable, but because Blake’s sentencing range would have been the same even if the quantity finding had been substantially lower, we affirm his sentence. The intimidation evidence was not unfairly prejudicial because of its significant…