United States First Circuit

In sentencing two dairy farmers convicted of delivering adulterated milk into interstate commerce, the district court erred by granting downward departures based on the "multiple causation" of the harm to their victims. It also erred in granting a downward departure to one defendant on the ground that he suffered from depression.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/22/2003
• Published 12/22/2003

Judges

• CYR, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CYR and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, H.S. Garcia, United States Attorney, Douglas N. Letter, Attorney, Appellate Staff, and Matthew M. Collette, Attorney, Appellate Staff, on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Raymond L. Sanchez Maceira, on brief for appellees.