Opinion ID: 528510
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Upward Adjustment for Role in the Offense

Text: 33 The trial court properly adjusted defendant's offense level upward by three levels based upon his role in the offense as applied to Sec. 3B1.1 of the guidelines. 34 In the commentary following this section of the guidelines, the commission instructs that [t]his section provides a range of adjustments to increase the offense level based upon the size of a criminal organization (i.e., the number of participants in the offense) and the degree to which the defendant was responsible for committing the offense. Defendant does not dispute the fact that chemical books and catalogs were sent to his address or that he arranged for co-defendants to rent property where d,1-amphetamine could be manufactured. He does not dispute that he received amounts of d,1-amphetamine in exchange for these services. He met with distributors and sold the drug or provided others with the drug for later sale. The record thus supports the district court's finding that defendant was a manager or supervisor of the organization.