United States v. Doe, No. 12-2304 (1st Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial in Portland, Maine, Defendant was convicted of illegally distributing a substance containing a cocaine base. The district court sentenced Defendant to twenty years incarceration, the maximum jail term allowed by statute. The Court of Appeals affirmed Defendant's conviction and the length of his sentence, holding (1) the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it allowed Defendant's indictment to include Defendant's aliases; (2) the trial judge did not err by allowing evidence of previous, uncharged drug deals between Defendant and a DEA agent to be presented to the jury; and (3) the trial judge did not make erroneous findings of fact at the sentencing hearing and did not err in determining that the combination of drug quantity and sentence enhancements translated to a sentence that conformed with the statutory maximum.
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