equivalency -11- provision "'reflects Congress' judgment that an individual who grows 150 plants is just as culpable as one who has distributed 150 kilograms of marijuana.'" (Quoting United States v. Haynes, 969 F.2d 569, 571 (7th Cir. 1992))
How later courts described this case
- equivalency -11- provision "'reflects Congress' judgment that an individual who grows 150 plants is just as culpable as one who has distributed 150 kilograms of marijuana.'" (Quoting United States v. Haynes, 969 F.2d 569, 571 (7th Cir. 1992))
- equivalency provision " 'reflects Congress' judgment that an individual who grows 150 plants is just as culpable as one who has distributed 150 kilograms of marijuana.' " (Quoting United States v. Haynes, 969 F.2d 569, 571 (7th Cir.1992))
- marijuana manufacturing co-conspirator who merely brokered sale of certain quantity of consumable marijuana and was not part of conspiracy when plants were grown had to be sentenced on basis of weight of harvested dry leaf for which he bargained because he could hot have reasonably foreseen underlying number of plants grown by conspiracy
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*509 CRABB, Chief District Judge,
concurring.
I agree with Judge Ripple’s resolution of Mark Young’s challenge to the application of the Sentencing Guidelines. I write separately to state my belief that, whether or not a defendant knows the production ratio of marijuana plants, the marijuana equivalency tables should not be used to quadruple count, as they were here.