United States v. Edwin Sanchez

How courts have described this case

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• considering that defendant “used his residence not only for the drop-off, storage, and pick-up of drugs, but also as a secure place to settle the financials”
• reasoning that because “Sanchez had no legitimate job and no source of income beyond his drug sales,” “the illicit transactions occurring at the premises were signifi- cant—in quantity, in scope, and in importance to Sanchez’s livelihood”
• storing up to 40 kilograms of cocaine at a time and using his residence “as a secure place to settle the financials”
• applying the drug-house enhancement even though “drugs were not kept [in the family home] for very long and [the defendant] primarily used the home as a residence” because the scope of the drug-related áctivities was otherwise significant
• “[T]he enhancement clearly contemplates that premises can have more than one principal use. . . . [T]he proper inquiry is whether the drug transactions were a second primary use of the premises or were instead merely a collateral use.”
• no error in not considering not-yet-imposed sentence of co-defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).