United States v. Ellis Silver Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a sentencing court may consider, as relevant conduct under U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3, the conduct charged in dismissed counts”
• holding that this Court is required to assume that the jury followed the limiting instructions given by the district court
• explaining that “[t]he principal vice of a duplicitous indictment is that the jury may convict a defendant without unanimous agreement on the defendant’s guilt with respect to a particular offense”
• noting 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B)&s mandatory ten-year sentence trumped any Guidelines determination based on quantity
• district court’s findings on witness credibility when making drug-quantity determination are virtually unreviewable on appeal
• “The principal vice of a duplicitous indictment is that the jury may convict a defendant without unanimous agreement on the defendant’s guilt with respect to a particular offense.”

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