Opinion ID: 751182
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The Government's Loss for the Sentencing Issue

Text: 45 Although the sentence imposed in this case becomes vacated because of our grant of a new trial, we need to comment on the claim made by Baird that the government for sentencing purposes did not incur a loss of $47,000.00. It seems to us that if a jury should convict Baird on retrial that, nevertheless, an issue exists whether the government may not have paid Raven more than the amount to which Raven was ultimately entitled. If Raven was entitled to the $47,000.00 which it received, a matter that we do not decide here, the sole damage to the government is the cost of money from the time it paid under the original request for progress payments until it would have paid the progress payment in the normal course of contracting; that is, after Raven had received the materials and could have presented documentation necessary for the progress payment related to Turner Engineering's shipment of materials. Whether Raven was or was not ultimately entitled to the $47,000.00 which it received may be an issue on retrial.