United States v. Salem

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• stating that government \waived its right to rely on plain error review\ when it failed to request that standard of review
• requiring findings on scope, in‐fur‐ 2 White was sentenced using the 2016 version of the Guidelines. Amendment 790 replaced the two elements (foreseeability and in‐further‐ ance) with three (scope, in‐furtherance, and foreseeability). See U.S.S.G. app. C (Supp. 2016
• waiver where defendant made apparent strategic choice not to dispute relevant conduct in PSR when doing so might have jeopardized reduction for acceptance of responsibility
• waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right which precludes appellate review
• “[E]ven if the court had adopted the findings in the PSRs in this case at the time of sentencing, the court's factual findings would still be deficient on a key element of the relevant conduct analysis: the scope of the jointly undertaken criminal activity.”
• requiring findings on scope, in-furtherance, and foreseeability

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