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Fourth Circuit· 8/17/1994

United States v. Kennedy

Citations

  • 32 F.3d 876
  • 1994 WL 447262

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “a drug conspiracy conviction may serve as the ‘instant offense’ supporting a career offender status enhancement under § 4B1.1….”
  • concluding that where the defendant “ran drug-related errands” and collected drug money for his coconspirator, there was sufficient evidence to establish the defendant’s knowing participation in the conspiracy
  • holding that a multiple conspiracy instruction is not required unless the evidence shows that the defendants were involved only in “separate conspiracies unrelated to the overall conspiracy charged in the indictment”
  • holding defendant must prove that jury was likely to transfer evidence from one crime to another, unrelated crime
  • noting that by “including conspiracy as a career offender offense, the Commission ensured that persons engaged in a collective drug distribution scheme would receive the same treatment as individual violators of similarly serious drug trafficking laws”
  • determining whether failure to comply with knock-and-announce requirements was excused by exigent circumstances that existed “at the time of the entry”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Eastern, Niemeyer, Virginia, Wilkinson, Williams

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Cites

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