Court Opinion

ID: 9478975
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:05:11.102225+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:45.426931
License: Public Domain

BREYER, Circuit Judge,
with whom LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge joins (concurring).
My review of the presentence report convinces me that the court’s original sentence rested upon the basic conduct at issue (possessing drugs with an intent to distribute them), and that it did not rest upon such technical matters as whether the “vessel” was “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States on the high seas” or was “within the customs waters of the United States” or both. That being so, I doubt that I would have remanded the case for resen-tencing initially. Regardless, since the basic conduct underlying both counts is the same, and since that basic conduct determined the sentence, it is virtually inconceivable that the similarity of old and new sentences could reflect “vindictiveness.” I therefore agree with the court.