Opinion ID: 988682
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: If the defendant was an organizer or leader of

Text: a criminal activity that involved five or more participants or was otherwise extensive, increase by 4 levels. _________________________________________________________________ Va. 1995); cf. United States v. Bonnette, 781 F.2d 357, 362-364 (4th Cir. 1986) (pre-Teague decision allowing federal habeas prisoner to assert claim for collateral relief based on a subsequent Supreme Court opinion construing a federal criminal statute to exclude the conduct underlying the prisoner's conviction). 5 This claim was also not raised on direct appeal. In this court, the government has not asserted that McLamb's failure to raise this claim on direct appeal bars our review. Therefore, the government has waived any bar that would apply to our review of this claim as a result of McLamb's failure to raise it on direct appeal. See Metzger, 3 F.3d at 757-58; supra, note 3. 7