US v. DePierre

Filing 920100315

Opinion

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var WPFootnote1 = 'See generally Office of National Drug Control Policy, Street\
Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade, Crack Cocaine,\
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=2 (last visited February 25, 2010) (listing "cookies" as a\
slang term for crack cocaine).\
'

var WPFootnote2 = 'Adding to confusion, this circuit uses the phrases\
"sentencing factor manipulation" and "sentencing entrapment"\
interchangeably, United States v. Jaca-Nazario, 521 F.3d 50, 57\
(1st Cir. 2008), but other circuits vary, e.g., United States v.\
Garcia, 79 F.3d 74, 75 (7th Cir. 1996) (distinguishing between\
government inducement of a more serious crime and conduct merely\
increasing the defendant\'s sentence); United States v. Jones, 18\
F.3d 1145, 1152-53 (4th Cir. 1994) (sentencing entrapment\
implicates defendant\'s predisposition but manipulation does not).\
'

var WPFootnote3 = 'Circuits limiting "cocaine base" to only crack (or to crack\
and other types of smokable cocaine base) include United States v.\
Higgins, 557 F.3d 381, 394-96 (6th Cir. 2009); United States v.\
Edwards, 397 F.3d 570, 575-77 (7th Cir. 2005); United States v.\
Vesey, 330 F.3d 1070, 1073 (8th Cir. 2003); United States v.\
Hollis, 490 F.3d 1149, 1155-57 (9th Cir. 2007); United States v.\
Munoz-Realpe, 21 F.3d 375, 377-78 (11th Cir. 1994); and United\
States v. Brisbane, 367 F.3d 910, 912-14 (D.C. Cir. 2004).\
'

var WPFootnote4 = 'In this circuit, see United States v. Medina, 427 F.3d 88, 92\
(1st Cir. 2005); United States v. Richardson, 225 F.3d 46, 49 (1st\
Cir. 2000); and United States v. Lopez-Gil, 965 F.2d 1124, 1134-35\
(1st Cir. 1992) (opinion on rehearing). For other circuits of the\
same view, see United States v. Jackson, 968 F.2d 158, 162-63 (2d\
Cir. 1992); United States v. Barbosa, 271 F.3d 438, 466-67 (3d Cir.\
2001); United States v. Ramos, 462 F.3d 329, 333-34 (4th Cir.\
2006); United States v. Butler, 988 F.2d 537, 542-43 (5th Cir.\
1993); and United States v. Easter, 981 F.2d 1549, 1558 & n.7 (10th\
Cir. 1992). \
'

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