Phelps v. Boughton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that there was once some truth to the assumption that high purity indicates greater culpability
• noting that there was once some truth to the assumption that high purity indicates greater culpability
• stating that treatment of methamphetamine offenses in the guidelines “can lead to perverse sentencing outcomes”
• applying policy disagreement with purity-driven methamphetamine guidelines by sentencing defendant consistent with methamphetamine mixture guidelines
• rejecting purity-based disparity and recalculating the base offense level by treating all methamphetamine attributable to the defendant as a methamphetamine mixture
• applying policy disagreement with purity-driven methamphetamine guidelines by sentencing defendant consistent with methamphetamine mixture guidelines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).