United States Second Circuit

Section 2Q2.1 of the sentencing guidelines requires a sentencing court to base the enhancement on the market value or the fair-market retail price of the endangered species involved, not only on the economic loss caused by an offense involving the trafficking of endangered animals.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/06/2001
• Decided 05/22/2001
• Published 05/22/2001

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:, Before KEARSE, CABRANES, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew B. Bowman, Westport, CT, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Eugeniusz Koczuk., Roger Bennet Adler (Faith A. Friedman, on the brief), Roger Bennet Adler, P.C., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Wieslaw Rozbicki., Cynthia Monaco, Assistant United States Attorney (Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney, on the brief;  Peter A. Norling, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee-Cross-Appellant United States.