United States v. Walker, No. 11-3489 (8th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseNicole Walker and Bart Hyde pled guilty to conspiring to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine. Defendants appealed their respective sentences, arguing that the district court clearly erred in calculating the drug quantity attributable to each of them. Hyde also argued that the district court erred in imposing an obstruction of justice enhancement and failed to reduce Hyde's sentence for acceptance of responsibility. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, holding (1) the district court did not rely on unreliable evidence or apply an overly broad definition of conspiracy; (2) the district court did not clearly err in determining Defendants distributed "ice" as defined in the Sentencing Guidelines; (3) the district court did not err in applying an obstruction of justice enhancement based on the court's determination that Defendant intentionally gave false testimony; and (4) the district court did not err in denying a reduction for acceptance of responsibility.
Court Description: Criminal Cases - sentence. In challenge to drug quantity attributable to both defendants, district court did not clearly err in finding defendants were part of a single conspiracy and in estimating the quantity of methamphetamine attributable to each of them, and did not clearly err in attributing "ice" methamphetamine to them even though there was no evidence as to its purity, as there was sufficient circumstantial and coconspirator's testimonial evidence. District court did not clearly err in applying obstruction of justice enhancement to Hyde or in denying him an acceptance of responsibility reduction.
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