United States v. Eligio Bacallao

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• concluding that district court embraced government’s reasoning where court stated that it adopted probation officer’s guidelines calculations and that sentence was based on only those acts the court found part of same course of conduct as offense of conviction
• concluding that district court embraced government’s reasoning where court stated that it adopted probation officer’s guidelines calculations and that sentence was based on only those acts the court found part of same course of conduct as offense of conviction
• holding court clearly erred in not making independent relevant conduct finding and instead relying entirely on the presentence report which failed to establish necessary relationship between offense of conviction and other drug transactions
• finding clear error where court failed to make independent relevant conduct finding and relied entirely on presentence report that contained insufficient factual findings
• finding clear error where court failed to make independent rele- vant conduct finding and relied entirely on presentence report that contained insufficient factual findings
• stating courts cannot consider additional drug purchases when there is “no explanation indicating how the alleged purchase involved the same purpose or modus operan-di as the convicted offense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).