Fourth Circuit· 8/17/1994

United States v. Kennedy

Citations

32 F.3d 876
1994 WL 447262

How courts have described this case

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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”

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Judges: Eastern, Niemeyer, Virginia, Wilkinson, Williams

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