Opinion ID: 2760522
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Obstruction of Justice/Double Counting

Text: The district court found that Collins’s sentence was subject to a two-level enhancement for obstructing justice. Collins complains that this twice puts 14 Case: 12-10582 Document: 00512868387 Page: 15 Date Filed: 12/12/2014 No. 12-10582 him in jeopardy, because the Count Nine witness tampering conviction is based on the same underlying conduct. To the contrary, the two-level enhancement falls within the express terms of Application Note 8 to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, because the witness tampering count had already been grouped for sentencing with Collins’s conspiracy and mail fraud counts. This amounted to one sentence enhancement for witness tampering, not a double-counting at all. 9