Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Rebel Motor Freight, Inc. v. Interstate Commerce Commission

112 S. Ct. 617

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1991-12-02
Topic
general

concluding that sentences were not unconstitutional because indictments failed to specify that crack cocaine would be included in calculating base offense levels; crack was part of the same cocaine conspiracy charged in the counts of conviction | holding that agency's stated objective should be upheld where reasonable | holding that agency’s stated objective should be upheld where reasonable | challenging a guideline enhancement based on amounts of crack cocaine involved that were neither charged in the indictment nor proven at trial | challenging a guideline enhancement based on amounts of crack cocaine involved that were neither charged in the indictment nor proven at trial | courts should not allow uncharged conduct to become “the tail that wags the dog of the substantive offense” | courts should not allow uncharged conduct to become "the tail that wags the dog of the substantive offense" | LEXIS, Genfed library, Dist file

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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Justice White and Justice Blackmun would grant certiorari.