Foust v. Lujan

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• holding that the standards for determining quantity under the sentencing guidelines apply to determining quantity under Secs. 841(b) and 846
• holding that a life sentence pursuant to § 841(b)(1)(A)(iii) was not a cruel and unusual punishment
• holding that a conspiracy defendant may only be sentenced based on drug quantities possessed and sold by coconspir-ators if their conduct was “(1) in furtherance of the conspiracy and (2) were either known to [the defendant] or were reasonably foreseeable to [him]”
• holding that a conspiracy defendant may only be sentenced based on drug quantities possessed and sold by coconspirators if their conduct was \(1) in furtherance of the conspiracy and (2) were either known to [the defendant] or were reasonably foreseeable to [him]\
• holding that a conspiracy defendant may only be sentenced based on drug quantities possessed and sold by coconspirators if their conduct was \(1) in furtherance of the conspiracy and (2) were either known to [the defendant] or were reasonably foreseeable to [him]\
• where defendant only received a few rocks of “crack” as payment for his work and his work only involved the actual sale of .5 grams, the fact that defendant knew of his supplier’s large-scale sales was not enough to make those 'sales “foreseeable”

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