United States v. Jose Casiano, A/K/A Jose Rivera Jose Casiano, United States of America v. Alfredo Dejesus

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• holding that § 924(c)’s sentence enhancement was properly applied to a defendant who used a gun to carjack a van and then to force the owner to lie in the back during a trip from Pennsylvania to New Jersey
• finding sentence enhancement under 924(c)(1)(C) applicable where the second conviction arises from the same criminal episode and involves the same victim as the first conviction
• affirming § 5K1.1 departure of 3 offense levels, resulting in reduced range
• court refrained from inserting words into statute which were not originally included in the statute
• “Thus, the issue is whether there was sufficient evidence that Casiano could have reasonably foreseen the use of a gun by his co- 1334 UNITED STATES v. GREEN conspirators.”
• under section 924(c)(1), “ ‘conviction’ means ‘the finding of guilt by a judge or jury that necessarily precedes the entry of a final judgment of conviction’ thus, “more than one ‘conviction’ can occur in a single proceeding”

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