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Opinions of the United
1995 Decisions                                                                                                             States Court of Appeals
                                                                                                                              for the Third Circuit

12-19-1995

United States of America v. Neadle
Precedential or Non-Precedential:

Docket 94-7417

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 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

NO. 94-7417

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

v.

LAWRENCE NEADLE, JR.,

                            Appellant.

_______________

On Appeal from the District Court of the Virgin Islands,
Division of St. Croix
(D.C. Criminal Action No. 92-cr-00113-2)

Argued April 17, 1995

Before: BECKER, NYGAARD and ROTH,
Circuit Judges

O R D E R

      IT IS ORDERED that the slip opinion in the above case, filed on
December 19, 1995, be amended as follows (all page references are to the
slip opinion):
      On page 6, line 2, after the word "version", insert the following:
"which the parties had accepted as being" . . .

     On page 6, change footnote 2 to read as follows:

     In fact, since the date of the mail fraud offense was January 5,
1988, the date of the mailing, see United States v. Seligsohn, 981 F.2d
1418, 1425 (3d Cir. 1992), the 1987 edition of the Sentencing Guidelines
was in effect at the date of the offense. The parties have accepted the
1988 edition as applicable, and Neadle has not raised any ex post facto
issue. Because we are confident that the result is the same under
either the

1988 or 1987 version, and because the 1988 guidelines contain several
useful clarifying amendments, we refer to that version in this opinion.

     The district court would properly apply the version of the
Guidelines in effect at the date of the offense because, at that time of
sentencing, § 2F1.1 of the Guidelines had been amended by adding four
new offense level increases for losses exceeding 10, 20, 40 and 80
million dollars. This amendment would call for a 16 level increase over
the base offense level for the loss as calculated here, rather than the
11 level increase which had been in effect until November, 1989. See,
e.g., United States v. Corrado, 53 F.3d 620, 622-23 (3d Cir. 1995) (if
application of guidelines in effect at sentencing results in more severe
penalty than that in effect at time of offense, earlier version
controls; applying a guideline amendment that enhances the penalty
offends the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution).

                        By the Court,

                        /s/ Jane R. Roth

                        Circuit Judge

Dated: January 29, 1996

Footnotes

 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

NO. 94-7417

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

v.

LAWRENCE NEADLE, JR.,

                             Appellant.

_______________

On Appeal from the District Court of the Virgin Islands,
Division of St. Croix
(D.C. Criminal Action No. 92-cr-00113-2)

Argued April 17, 1995

Before: BECKER, NYGAARD and ROTH,
Circuit Judges
O R D E R

      IT IS ORDERED that the slip opinion in the above case, filed on
December 19, 1995, be amended as follows (all page references are to the
slip opinion):
      On page 6, line 2, after the word "version", insert the following:
"which the parties had accepted as being" . . .

     On page 6, change footnote 2 to read as follows:

     In fact, since the date of the mail fraud offense was January 5,
1988, the date of the mailing, see United States v. Seligsohn, 981 F.2d
1418, 1425 (3d Cir. 1992), the 1987 edition of the Sentencing Guidelines
was in effect at the date of the offense. The parties have accepted the
1988 edition as applicable, and Neadle has not raised any ex post facto
issue. Because we are confident that the result is the same under
either the

1988 or 1987 version, and because the 1988 guidelines contain several
useful clarifying amendments, we refer to that version in this opinion.

     The district court would properly apply the version of the
Guidelines in effect at the date of the offense because, at that time of
sentencing, § 2F1.1 of the Guidelines had been amended by adding four
new offense level increases for losses exceeding 10, 20, 40 and 80
million dollars. This amendment would call for a 16 level increase over
the base offense level for the loss as calculated here, rather than the
11 level increase which had been in effect until November, 1989. See,
e.g., United States v. Corrado, 53 F.3d 620, 622-23 (3d Cir. 1995) (if
application of guidelines in effect at sentencing results in more severe
penalty than that in effect at time of offense, earlier version
controls; applying a guideline amendment that enhances the penalty
offends the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution).

                      By the Court,

                      /s/ Jane R. Roth

                      Circuit Judge

Dated: January 29, 1996

Footnotes