United States v. Woodard, No. 09-1802 (6th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseAfter pleading guilty to the manufacture of 1,000 or more marijuana plants, the defendant was sentenced to 180 months, based on sentencing factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. 3553. The Sixth Circuit affirmed. Noting that the court had numerous other justifications for upward variance under the sentencing guidelines, the court stated that the defendant's substantial rights were not compromised by consideration of his use of a friend as a "straw man" to purchase real estate and his pressure on that friend to "take the Fifth" as part of his criminal history. The sentence was not unreasonable for a defendant with a history of violent crime and almost no work history.
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