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Fourth Circuit enforces minor participant departure for allegedly low-producing drug conspiracy gopher.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

To those who have expended substantial energy and frustration finding, hiring, training and retaining good employees, imagine how much tougher it is for criminal enterprises to find good help, considering that they cannot exactly advertise job openings on CraigsList.  Enter Malcolm Dawson, who plead guilty to a drug conspiracy whereby the parties agreed the prosecutor would recommend a two-level sentencing departure for his minor participation in the conspiracy. How minor was his participation? "The extensive drug conspiracy involved at least twenty-five people, and Dawson only was used from time-to-time by Beaufort as a driver and delivery person. The parties agree that Dawson was unreliable in providing these services." U.S. v. Dawson...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).