United States v. Robert Johnson, United States of America v. Miguel Ramirez, A/K/A Lucas Gonzales, United States of America v. Robert Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• affirming increase where defendant recruited one coconspirator, directed deliveries of cocaine to Chicago, and supplied all cocaine for distribution network
• affirming role enhancement where defendant recruited, supplied, and directed others in drug distribution scheme
• “We grant the sentencing court great deference when reviewing its evaluation of a defendant’s acceptance of responsibility.”
• “Normally the denial of a pretrial motion to suppress evidence preserves the objection for appeal and defense counsel need not renew the objection at trial.”
• Consistent with Pinkerton, “[t]he district court instructed the jury that if it found a defendant guilty of the conspiracy, it could find the defendant guilty of the substantive offense charged . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).