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Parties Involved:
Charles Wade Inman
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Ci~cuit 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

AUG 2 7 1990 

&OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, 

v. 

CHARLES WADE INMAN, 

Defendant-Appellant. 

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No. 89-5181 

(D.C. No. 89-CR-22-02-C) 

( N. D. Okla. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENTl 

Before McKAY and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges, and KANE, 2 District 

Judge. 

This appeal raises a single issue involving the proper 

application of the Sentencing Guidelines to the facts of this 

case. The parties agree that the initial offense level of 

thirteen and criminal history category of I would produce a 

guideline range of twelve to eighteen months. The Probation 

Office report determined that the defendant's criminal conduct 

constituted "organized criminal activity" to which the defendant 

raised a specific objection. The trial court's adoption of the 

1 This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

2 Honorable John L. Kane, Jr., United States District Judge for 

the District of Colorado, sitting by designation. 

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presentence report resulted in a guideline range of fifteen to 

twenty-one months. The trial court sentenced the defendant to 

twenty-one months. 

While there is considerable dispute over the matter, we are 

fully satisfied that the trial court found the underlying conduct 

involved organized criminal conduct as defined by the commentary 

to section 2B6.l(b)(3). The examples there include activities 

"such as an auto theft ring or 'chop shop'" operations. United 

States Sentencing Commission, Guidelines Manual, 2B6.l(b)(3), 

comment. (Nov. 1989). 

Defendant challenges both the sufficiency of the evidence for 

such finding and the application of that rule to the facts of this 

case. Our careful review of the record satisfies us that on a 

preponderance-of-the-evidence basis there was sufficient evidence 

to support the trial court's finding that the facts of this case 

satisfy section 2B6.l(b)(3) and that the trial court correctly 

applied that section to the facts of this case. While the trial 

court made a specific finding of the value of six specific cars 

that were involved in this case, there was testimony that this was 

an ongoing operation which involved more than just those six cars. 

As a result, the court had sufficient evidence to conclude that 

the scope of the activity was clearly significant but difficult to 

estimate. 

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Because the trial court had sufficient evidence to support 

its findings and its findings were properly applied to the 

guidelines, we AFFIRM. 

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Entered for the Court 

Monroe G. McKay 

Circuit Judge 

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