United States of America v. Benjamin Franklin Moore

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• holding that when determining what constitutes relevant conduct, “the district court ‘should consider the similarity, regularity, and temporal proximity of the conduct.’” (quoting United States v. Geralds, 158 F.3d 977, 979 (8th Cir. 1998))
• holding that uncharged drug quantities were properly attributed to the defendant where the sale of those amounts occurred in the same city as the charged drug offense and occurred four to six months earlier
• holding that uncharged drug quantities were part of the same course of conduct where the sale of those quantities occurred in the same city as the charged drug offense and occurred four to six months earlier
• explaining that intent to distribute may be established by circumstantial evidence, including such things, as quantity, purity and presence of firearms, cash, packaging material, or other distribution paraphernalia
• rejecting sufficiency challenge where Government had little evidence linking defendant to the house where the gun was found, but defendant’s admission of ownership to officer supported conviction
• attributing to defendant drug quantities “that occurred during the commission of the offense of conviction, in preparation for that offense, or in the course of attempting to avoid detection or responsibility for that offense”

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