Opinion ID: 62973
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Heading: Responsibility for codefendant’s conduct

Text: The Guidelines provide relevant conduct is to be taken into account in determining the offense level. U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3. Section 1B1.3(a) provides relevant conduct includes: 5 (1)(A) all acts and omissions committed, aided, abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, procured, or willfully caused by the defendant; and (B) in the case of a jointly undertaken criminal activity (a criminal plan, scheme, endeavor, or enterprise undertaken by the defendant in concert with others, whether or not charged as a conspiracy), all reasonably foreseeable acts and omissions of others in furtherance of the jointly undertaken criminal activity, that occurred during the commission of the offense of conviction, in preparation for that offense, or in the course of attempting to avoid detection or responsibility for that offense. See also United States v. McCrimmon, 362 F.3d 725, 732-33 (11th Cir. 2004) (affirming district court’s finding that defendant was responsible under U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3(a)(1)(B) for total loss caused in course of conspiracy); United States v. LaFraugh, 893 F.2d 314, 317 (11th Cir. 1990) (holding sentencing court may find defendant accountable for all losses resulting from acts of participants in same course of conduct). Anderson’s argument he should only be attributed one-half the total loss is meritless. The district court was permitted to attribute to Anderson the total loss involved in the counterfeit check scheme as relevant conduct under U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3(a)(1)(A) and (B). It is undisputed (1) Anderson and Rufus were traveling together committing the same offenses, (2) counterfeit checks were found in their car and linked to false identifications possessed by both Anderson and Rufus, and 6 (3) Anderson pled guilty to possessing counterfeit identifications. Thus, although Anderson was not charged with a conspiracy, he aided and abetted Rufus’s conduct and participated in the counterfeit check scheme jointly with Rufus.