US v. Rodriguez

Filing 920080620

Opinion

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var WPFootnote1 = 'Of the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.\
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var WPFootnote2 = 'The indictment also included a separate count against Peguero\
for intimidating witnesses but the jury acquitted on this count and\
it is not at issue on appeal.\
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var WPFootnote3 = 'The ordinary rule, in the absence of such a distinction in\
the substantive statute, is that an aider and abettor is treated as\
a principal, 18 U.S.C. § 2, and is punishable accordingly. See\
United States v. Bryan, 483 F.2d 88, 95 (3d Cir. 1973) ("[A]n aider\
and abettor is a principal and can be punished as such.") (internal\
quotation omitted). Normally only an accessory after the fact gets\
a fifty percent discount on the maximum sentence. 18 U.S.C. § 3.\
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var WPFootnote4 = 'E.g., United States v. Rodriguez, F.3d , 2008 WL\
2025066, at *19 (1st Cir. 2008); United States v. Rodriguez, 938\
F.2d 319, 322 n.4 (1st Cir. 1991). Compare United States v.\
Portes, 505 F.3d 21, 26 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 128 S. Ct. 730\
(2007) (increase of a statutory maximum based on drug quantity\
issue not submitted to the jury not reversible for plain error\
where evidence of drug quantity was overwhelming).\
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var WPFootnote5 = 'Hilario\'s argument that other defendants--namely, Martinez\
and Milan--were the true managers of the affair is beside the\
point, since the managerial role enhancement does not require the\
defendant to "be at the top of a criminal scheme." United States v. \
Goldberg, 105 F.3d 770, 777 (1st Cir. 1997).\
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