Lupino v. Young

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Guidelines provide for calculation of defendant’s base offense level based on the 341 grams involved in the conspiracy rather than the 66.1 grams he sold himself
• asking third party to kill a witness sufficiently unusual to warrant departure beyond two level enhancement
• asking third party to kill a witness sufficiently unusual to warrant departure beyond two level enhancement
• \[P]roximity in time combined with similarity in type of crime virtually guarantees admittance of prior bad acts evidence. . . .\ (emphasis added)
• \[Plroximity in time combined with similarity in type of crime virtually guarantees admittance of prior bad acts evidence ....\ (emphasis added)
• “[P]rosecutors would be well advised to avoid trying to explain to the jury the meaning of ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ (this is a function properly performed only by the trial judge). . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).