United States v. Bennett, No. 10-3335 (8th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to distributing and conspiring to distribute Benzylpiperazine (BZP) in violation of federal law. Defendant objected to the district court's conclusion that BZP was sufficiently equivalent to Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) - the chemical name for the drug commonly called "Ecstasy" - to compute defendant's drug quantity under the Sentencing Guidelines. The court held that the district court committed no significant procedural error in explaining its decision to equate BZP with MDMA for drug-quantity purposes.
Court Description: Criminal case - Sentencing. District court appropriately considered whether the drug defendant sold - Benzylpiperazine - was sufficiently equivalent to MDMA (Ecstasy) in both potency and property to justify use of the MDMA quantity tables in calculating the Guidelines range applicable to a Benzylpiperazine offense; court adequately explained its rationale for its decision, and no procedural error occurred.
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