Court Opinion

ID: 9486232
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 11:41:27.756915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:51:35.521157
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MAHONEY, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
I am otherwise in agreement with my colleagues, but respectfully dissent as to the majority’s reversal of the two-level enhancement of McGregor’s sentence pursuant to USSG § 3Bl.l(c). In my view, this ease cannot be meaningfully distinguished from United States v. Jacobo, 934 F.2d 411 (2d Cir.1991). In Jacobo, we ruled that because a defendant “had obtained the cocaine and had hired [another defendant] to carry it for him, the court’s finding that [the hiring defendant] played a managerial role in the enterprise was not clearly erroneous.” Id. at 418; see also id. at 414 (hiring occurred just before drug transaction was consummated).
Jacobo leaves little room to preclude application of the § 3Bl.l(e) enhancement because the “supervised” or “managed” participant was only utilized in a single transaction; nor should the existence of 'other similar *1140transactions in which that participant was not involved affect the analysis.
I would accordingly affirm the judgment and sentence of the district court.