United States v. Damato, No. 10-3191 (10th Cir. 2012)
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Defendant-Appellant Glenn Damato appealed his 96-month sentence for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. He argued that the district court erred in calculating the quantity of drugs by including as relevant conduct a drug transaction that occurred more than thirteen years prior to what he was convicted of in this case. The government argued that the old transaction was part of the "same course of conduct." Upon reivew, the Tenth Circut could not agree with the government’s argument: "the thirteen-year interval at issue far exceeds the gap between relevant conduct and the charged offense in the case law of any circuit including our own. Further, that extreme lack of temporal proximity was not mitigated by strong evidence of regularity or similarity." Nevertheless, the Court exercised its discretion to consider an alternative basis to affirm, and concluded that the prior transaction qualified as relevant conduct because it and the current conviction were part of a "common scheme or plan." With that, the Court affirmed Defendant's conviction.
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