Opinion ID: 667507
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Corey Sims

Text: 176
177 Corey Sims contends that his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to request an addict jury instruction as well as a vindictive prosecution instruction. Both arguments may be disposed of in short order. Sims fails to identify any evidence in the record that would have supported such instructions, assuming that they would have been appropriate instructions in any event.
178 Sims also makes a cursory argument that the district court at sentencing should have deemed him responsible for between one-half and one kilogram of cocaine rather than fifteen to fifty kilograms. However, he makes no effort whatsoever to point to evidence in the record which supports his position. Moreover, the premise underlying his contention is mistaken. As the government points out, the court adopted the very five to fifteen kilogram range Sims' counsel proposed. Sent.Tr. 9, 16. Certainly there is nothing in Sims' brief which suggests that it was plain error for the court to find him responsible for the very range that his own counsel urged on the court.