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Sixth Circuit· 4/4/2008

United States v. Jeross

Citations

  • 521 F.3d 562
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 7146
  • 2008 WL 906207

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 district court’s error in calculating the amount of drugs at issue was harmless because the error had no impact on the defendant’s sentence
  • holding that when the exact amount of drugs is unclear, “an estimate will suffice”
  • stating that a district court may base its estimate “upon physical evidence (such as seized drugs) or testimonial evidence”
  • noting that an error is harmless only if this Court is certain that it had no effect on the sentence imposed
  • noting that an error is harmless only if this Court is certain that it had no effect on the sentence imposed
  • suggesting that a version of the Guidelines taking effect after the defendant committed an offense could only be applied if doing so would not result in a higher Guidelines range

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Merritt, Gilman, Cook

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60 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

53 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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