Opinion ID: 710261
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: LeRoy Cooley

Text: 119 The district court assigned Cooley a base offense level of 30, based upon the approximately 2,000 pounds of marijuana alleged to be the goal of the conspiracy charged in Count 1 of the indictment. 19 Cooley contends that the court should have calculated his offense level based only upon the quantities of marijuana alleged in the substantive possession counts. He points out that the district court did not use the 2,000 pound quantity to determine the base offense levels of appellants Lipp, John Wacker, and Lewis Wacker. Thus, Cooley argues, his sentence was arbitrary and a misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines. 120 Based upon the evidence presented at trial, the district court made specific factual findings regarding the amount of marijuana attributable to Cooley. Among other things, the district court found that Cooley was knowledgeable of the entire organization and participated in many different roles throughout the conspiracy. (R.O.A. Vol. XXVIII, at 23-24). The district court thus concluded that Cooley had reasonable and foreseeable knowledge of the entire 2,000 pound quantity calculated in the presentence report. (Id. at 24). By contrast, the district court specifically found that Lipp, John Wacker, and Lewis Wacker could not have reasonably foreseen the 2,000 pound quantity, and the court accordingly imposed a lower offense level for their conduct. (R.O.A. Vol. XX, at 15-16; Vol. XXI, at 24-25; Vol. XXII, at 32-33). Our review of the record satisfies us that these findings are not clearly erroneous. We therefore affirm the district court's determination of Cooley's sentence in spite of the disparity. See United States v. Garza, 1 F.3d 1098, 1101 (10th Cir.) (disparity between codefendants' sentences clearly explicable by the facts on the record), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 114 S.Ct. 617, 126 L.Ed.2d 581 (1993).