United States v. Sterling Keith Rogers

How courts have described this case

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• deriving such a “strong inference” from the vast quantity of drugs involved
• vacating sentence where the district court told the defendant, who had been convicted as part of a marijuana conspiracy, that it “would not consider a lesser sentence” until he cooperated with the Government to bring “others involved in the conspiracy to justice.”
• improper to enhance sentence based on defendant’s failure to cooperate with prosecution
• improper to enhance sentence based on defendant's failure to cooperate with prosecution
• “When it has been made to appear that longer sentences have been imposed by the courts because the defendants refused to confess their guilt and persisted in their claims of innocence we have vacated the sentences.”
• same with 427 pounds marijuana (equaling approx- imately 194 KG of cocaine)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).