United States v. Willie A. Johnson, Also Known as Twan

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• concluding that sentencing judge was free to find that defendant merited adjustment for managing and supervising conspiracy based on testimony of self‐interested coconspirator
• noting that sentencing courts are \not bound by the same stringent evidentiary standards as are applicable in a criminal trial\
• noting that sentencing courts are “not bound by the same stringent evidentiary standards as are ap‐ plicable in a criminal trial”
• stating that “a dis- trict court in determining a sentence is not bound by the same stringent evidentiary standards as are applicable in a criminal trial”
• noting that the district court can credit testimony that is “totally uncorroborated and comes from an admitted liar, convicted felon, large scale drug-dealing, paid gov- ernment informant”
• “Accordingly, their status as self‐interested co‐conspirators does not thereby render the information inherently unreli‐ able.”

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