United States v. Mills, No. 11-1249 (1st Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty to one count of importing codone. The guilty plea was based on an incident in which, based on tips from three confidential informants (CIs), federal agents apprehended Defendant at the Canadian border, handcuffed him to a hospital bed, and monitored Defendant's bowel movement, in which Defendant passed a condom containing 104 eighty-milligram and five forty-milligram oxycodone pills. The district court assigned Defendant a drug quantity equivalent to 2,637 eighty-milligram oxycodone pills based in part on uncharged conduct described by the CIs and sentenced Defendant to 108 months in prison. The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the district court did not err in (1) denying Defendant's motion to force the government to disclose the CIs' names, as the court correctly weighed the correct factors in finding that the government's interest in preserving the CIs' anonymity tipped the scale against disclosure; and (2) calculating the drug quantity attributable to Defendant, as the CIs' statements were sufficiently reliable.
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