United States Ninth Circuit

The approximation of an amount of marijuana sold under the "multiplier" method, was insufficiently reliable to support a sentence where the average transaction size and days of operation used were clearly erroneous.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/13/2001
• Decided 08/19/2002
• Published 08/19/2002

Judges

• Before B. FLETCHER, BRUNETTI and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Blaine T. Connaughton, Yakima, WA, for the defendant-appellant., Robert A. Ellis, Assistant United States Attorney, Yakima, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee.