Sweet v. Rhay

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant was responsible for amount origi- nally in package because \[t]he nature and seriousness of [the defen- dant’s] conduct [was] the same no matter how much of the cocaine the DEA took out\ of the package prior to delivery
• commentary constitutes a “contemporaneous explanatio[n] of the Guidelines by their authors, entitled to substantial weight”
• “[o]ffenses of the same kind, but not encompassed in the same course of conduct or plan, are excluded” from consideration at sentencing
• government intervention which reduces amount of drugs actually delivered should not affect sentence; defendant should be sentenced based on the drugs that he would have possessed had the government not intervened
• sentence was correctly based on full amount of original cocaine shipment even though drug enforcement officers replaced all but 1.88 grams of cocaine with sugar

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).