Opinion ID: 44069
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Heading: Steven Pitts’s Sentencing

Text: During Steven Pitts’s sentencing hearing, the district court attributed to him at least 150 kilograms of cocaine, yielding a base offense level of 38 under the Guidelines. As in Byron’s sentencing, the district court based this drug quantity finding on the trial testimony regarding the amount of cocaine involved in the sting and previous transactions. In addition, the district court granted a two-level increase under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1), concluding that it was reasonably foreseeable to Steven that Byron would possess a firearm during the commission -6- of the drug trafficking offense.2 With a total adjusted offense level of 40 and criminal history category of III, the district court calculated a Guidelines range of 360 months’ to life imprisonment. The district court sentenced Steven Pitts to the low end of the Guidelines range, imposing 360 months’ imprisonment on the two drug counts, to be served concurrently.