United States First Circuit

21 USC 841(b)(1)(C), which provides an enhanced sentence for drug trafficking if death resulted from drug use, does not require that the death be reasonably foreseeable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/04/2002
• Published 01/04/2002

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, ROSENN and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Abbott, by appointment of the court, for appellant., Todd E. Newhouse, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom James B. Farmer, United States Attorney, was on brief, for the United States.