United States Ninth Circuit

Where a drug quantity is calculated in a manner that is inherently imprecise, under the Sentencing Guidelines, the district court must consider the margin of error before finally fixing the amount attributable to the defendant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/02/2000
• Decided 11/02/2000
• Published 11/02/2000

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  D.W. NELSON, REINHARDT, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• D. Scott Dattan, Anchorage, Alaska, for the defendant-appellant., Mark A. Rosenbaum, Assistant United States Attorney, Anchorage, Alaska, and Daniel Steven Goodman, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellee.