U.S. v. Conway, No. 06-4083 (6th Cir.) (513 F.3d 640) (January 23, 2008) (Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton)
Loaded on Dec. 1, 2007
published in Punch and Jurists
December 24, 2007
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Here the Court rejected a Sixth Amendment challenge to the use of conduct underlying dismissed counts as the basis for a sentence enhancement, concluding that there are significant differences between dismissed counts and acquitted conduct.
From the outset, one of the most contentious concepts contained in the Federal …
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