Legal Opinion
United States v. Levi Culps
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 19, 2002No. 00-30169PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Levi Culps (“Culps”) and others sold marijuana from the Culps home in rural Washington State. A jury convicted Culps of three counts of distributing and possessing marijuana and one count of maintaining a drug house. The district court sentenced Culps to 88 months in prison based upon the court’s approximation of how much marijuana was sold at Culps’ house over a three-year period. Culps appeals his sentence. We hold that Culps’ sentence was based on an approximated drug quantity that was not supported by sufficiently reliable information, vacate his…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by37 opinions
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