United States v. Karl Kessler, United States of America v. Adele Hylback

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• affirming the enhancement where the district court stated “I heard the trial testimony, and I think [it constitutes] obstruction of justice”
• relying on the testimony of a co-conspirator who manufactured methamphetamine with the defendant, along with physical evidence such as “drug paraphernalia, residual methamphetamine, firearms and ammunition, a police scanner, and the remains of methamphetamine labs”
• “Whether Kessler committed perjury and in so doing obstructed justice is a factual finding, and thus we will reverse the district court’s imposition of a sentence enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1 only upon a showing of clear error.”
• \We have affirmed a district court's finding of perjury and subsequent application of sentence enhancements for obstruction of justice where the perjured testimony directly contravened testimony of other witnesses . . . .\

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