United States v. Luis A. Martinez, Alexis Miranda Ortiz, Also Known as Alexis Pacheco

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• explaining that the reasonable foreseeability requirement for drug type and quantity descends from the theory of conspiratorial liability in Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 646-48, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L.Ed. 1489 (1946
• interpreting statement by Senator Biden that the amendment \make[s] clear that any penalty that may be imposed for a substantive drug offense may be imposed for an attempt or conspiracy to commit that offense\
• interpreting statement by Senator Biden that the amendment “make[s] clear that any penalty that may be imposed for a substantive drug offense may be imposed for an attempt or conspiracy to commit that offense”
• defendant was a “late-comer” to the drug conspiracy, and thus played no part in many of the transactions for which the government sought to hold him accountable
• “We find that Congress did not intend to . . . require strict liability in any case where an individual small-time dealer becomes associated with a large-scale conspiracy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).