United States v. Calvin Caver (05-3295) Tamir Abdullah (05-3297) Fred Cloud (05-3344)

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• concluding that even assuming that the evidence at trial demonstrated only multiple conspiracies, there was no prejudice requiring reversal because, inter alia, the trial only lasted a week
• holding that evidence was relevant even where that relevance was “attenuated”
• stating that “[s]eparate trials produce additional labor for judges and juries, which results from the unnecessary repetition of evidence and trial. procedures.”
• stating that for the appellate court “to declare a portion of the Sentencing Guidelines unreasonable under all circumstances” would require “exercising legislative power . . . [that] Booker does not authorize”
• holding “while a departure from the 100:1 ratio may well be reasonable in a particular case, applying the ratio does not, ipso facto, make a sentence unreasonable under existing case law.”
• describing the risk as “the transference of guilt from defendants involved in one conspiracy to defendants in another conspiracy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).