United States v. Elias Gaitan-Acevedo (95-1616) Paul Free (95-1694) Leonarda Oropeza Arechiga (95-1758) Charles Crehore (95-1764)

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• refusing to accept defendants’ argument regarding “juror impartiality” and concluding that “the district court’s rulings were appropriate based on its findings”
• “interpret[ing] the ‘indictment or waiver’ phrase to refer to the federal offense for which the mandatory sentence is imposed,” and not to the prior conviction
• trial court properly honored Fifth Amendment privilege where plea agreement did not protect witness from prosecution in any other jurisdiction
• defendant responsible for drug 6 No. 24-5697, United States v. Hudson quantities reflecting mule’s “reasonably foreseeable” deliveries
• same for defendant who gave directions to a courier as to when a drug delivery was to be made, made arrangements for a courier whose car broke down, and whose telephone number was possessed by another courier as a contact person

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