United States v. Cassius, No. 13-1367 (10th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseFor this appeal, the issue presented for the Tenth Circuit's review centered on whether "Alleyne v. United States," (133 S. Ct. 2151 (2013)) allowed a district court to enhance a criminal defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range for a 21 U.S.C. 841 conviction based on a judicial drug quantity finding greater than what the jury found at trial. After review, the Court held that, so long as the trial court does not use its own drug quantity finding to alter the defendant's statutory sentencing range, such an enhancement is entirely consistent with "Alleyne." Specific to this case, nothing indicated the trial court altered Defendant Timothy Cassius's statutory sentencing range in any way, so the court did not contravene Alleyne.
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