United States First Circuit

Where three conspirators identified the defendant as their leader and/or organizer, four-level upward adjustment against the defendant as an organizer or leader of a criminal venture involving at least four other individuals was proper and did not require proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2002
• Published 03/07/2002

Judges

• CYR, Senior Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lori H. Levinson, with whom Cain, Hibbard, Myers & Cook, P.C. was on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer Hay Zacks, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.