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· 9/9/2013

United States v. Getto

Citations

  • 729 F.3d 221
  • 2013 WL 4779622
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 18739

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the Fourth Amendment generally does not require 11 “suppressing evidence collected by foreign law enforcement authorities abroad”
  • “Before sentencing a defendant based on the conduct of co- conspirators, . . . a district court is required to make two particularized findings: (1
  • “[C]onduct does not shock the judicial conscience when it is ‘simply illegal,’ rather, it must be ‘egregious’”
  • \[T]he scope of conduct for which a defendant can be held accountable under the sentencing guidelines is significantly narrower than the conduct embraced by the law of conspiracy.\ (citation omitted)
  • “Defendant’s allegations, even if credited, demonstrate only robust information-sharing and cooperation across parallel investigations and do not contradict the government’s claim that the [foreign] investigation was not controlled or directed by American law enforcement.”
  • declining to adopt “joint venture doctrine” to Fourth Amendment challenge

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Judges: Cabranes, Sack, Carney

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