United States v. James E. Schuster

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the difference between a sentence in the 21-to-27-month range and a 5-year sentence was not so “exceptional” as to require a higher burden of proof, but implying that an “exceptional” situation would warrant a higher burden of proof
• finding that the difference between a sentence in the 21-to-27-month range and a 5-year sentence was not so “exceptional” as to require a higher burden of proof, but implying that an “exceptional” situation would warrant a higher burden of proof
• “This Court has consistently held that the quantity of drugs involved in a narcotics case does not constitute a substantive element of the drug offense.”
• the difference between the 21-27 month guideline range and the 60-month sentence imposed pursuant to a statutory mandatory minimum was not so dramatic as to mandate a higher standard of proof
• enhancement from 21-27 month range to 5-year sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).