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U.S. v. Cones, No. 99-1292 (7th Cir.) (195 F.3d 941) (October 28, 1999) (Judge Frank H. Easterbrook)

In this drug case the Seventh Circuit reversed as improper a six-level upward departure that had been imposed at sentencing by the district court because of the unusually high purity of the heroin that was involved. Customs officials intercepted a package of 248 grams of heroin and they made a ...

 

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