United States Fourth Circuit

The government successfully challenges defendant's sentence for a drug conviction where the district court erred in excluding from its drug quantity determination the amount of cocaine base that was removed from a package prior to its controlled delivery to defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/02/2004
• Published 11/02/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, TRAXLER, Circuit Judge, and TITUS, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Jane Barrett Taylor, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  James Paul Rogers, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  J. Strom Thurmond, Jr., United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.