United States v. Webster

USCA1 Opinion








May 1, 1995 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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No. 94-1720
No. 94-1721
No. 94-1722

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Appellee,
v.

ANTHONY F. WEBSTER,
Defendant, Appellant.

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No. 94-1778

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Appellee,

v.
ROBERT A. BOUTHOT,
a/k/a ROBERT H. BOUTHOT,

Defendant, Appellant.
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No. 94-1846
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Appellee,
v.

MANUEL D. RAVELO,
Defendant, Appellant.

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No. 94-1862

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Appellee,

v.
WARREN R. HUNTINGTON,

Defendant, Appellant.
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ERRATA SHEET
The opinion of this Court, issued on April 27, 1995, is amended

as follows:
On page 3, line 18, replace "Walker's" with "Webster's".

On page 14, line 5 of second full paragraph, insert a comma after
"because".


























































UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

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No. 94-1720
No. 94-1721
No. 94-1722


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Appellee,

v.
ANTHONY F. WEBSTER,

Defendant, Appellant.
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No. 94-1778
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Appellee,
v.

ROBERT A. BOUTHOT,
a/k/a ROBERT H. BOUTHOT,
Defendant, Appellant.

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No. 94-1846

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Appellee,

v.
MANUEL D. RAVELO,

Defendant, Appellant.
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No. 94-1862
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Appellee,
v.

WARREN R. HUNTINGTON,
Defendant, Appellant.

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APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE

[Hon. Gene Carter, U.S. District Judge] ___________________
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Before
Boudin, Circuit Judge, _____________

Campbell, Senior Circuit Judge, ____________________
and John R. Gibson,* Senior Circuit Judge. ____________________

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Thomas F. Hallett, by Appointment of the Court, for appellant __________________
Anthony F. Webster.
F. Mark Terison, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom ________________
Jay P. McCloskey, United States Attorney, was on brief for the United _________________ ______________________
States.
Thomas A. Dyhrberg, by Appointment of the Court, with whom ____________________
Thomas A. Dyhrberg, P.A. was on brief for appellant Robert A. Bouthot. ________________________
Margaret D. McGaughey, Assistant United States Attorney, with ______________________
whom Jay P. McCloskey, United States Attorney, and George T. Dilworth, ________________ __________________
Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for the United States.
James R. Bushell, by Appointment of the Court, with whom Law _________________ ___
Office of James R. Bushell was on brief for appellant Manuel D. _____________________________
Ravelo.
F. Mark Terison, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom ________________
Jay P. McCloskey, United States Attorney, and George T. Dilworth, _________________ ___________________
Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for the United States.

Jeffrey M. Smith, by Appointment of the Court, with whom Peters, ________________ ______
Smith & Moscardelli was on brief for appellant Warren R. Huntington. ___________________
Michael M. DuBose, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom __________________
Jay P. McCloskey, United States Attorney, and Raymond Hurley, _________________ _______________
Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for the United States.

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April 27, 1995
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*Of the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

















BOUDIN, Circuit Judge. Anthony Webster, Robert Bouthot _____________

and Manuel Ravelo were convicted of various drug offenses

stemming from their involvement with a cocaine distribution

ring centered in Portland, Maine; Warren Huntington was

convicted of three offenses arising from an unrelated bank

fraud scheme. The four were sentenced to prison terms

ranging from 30 to 188 months, and each now challenges his

sentence.

I. Webster

On December 3, 1993, Webster pled guilty to eight

separate offenses, including the use of a firearm during a

drug trafficking crime. The guideline sentencing range for

all offenses but the firearm offense was calculated to be 63

to 78 months. By statute the firearm offense carried a

mandatory minimum sentence of 60 months to run consecutively

to any other sentence imposed. See 18 U.S.C. 924(c). ___

Before sentencing the government moved for a downward

departure from the guideline sentencing range in recognition

of Webster's cooperation and testimony in prosecuting the

other members of the drug conspiracy. The government's

motion for departure invoked U.S.S.G. 5K1.1 and thus,

according to the government, sought a downward departure for

the guideline offenses only. See U.S.S.G. 5K1.1 (allowing ___

departure from guidelines on government's motion). The

government did not request a downward departure under 18



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U.S.C. 3553(e) from the statutory mandatory minimum for the

firearm offense.

At sentencing, Webster did not request the court to

depart below the 60-month sentence for the firearm offense,

believing that the court lacked the authority to do so

because the government had not moved under section 3553(e).

Instead, Webster pressed the court to award a proportionate

reduction of his total sentence--subject to a 60-month floor-

-and not just the portion of his sentence governed by the

guidelines. Webster then argued for an overall sentence of

72 to 78 months.

The district court responded that this "defeats the

whole purpose of the statutory mandatory minimum" and that it

had to "set that aside" for purposes of determining a

downward departure of the guideline sentence. The district

court then sentenced Webster to a total of 90 months: 60

months for the firearm offense and 30 months for the other

offenses, to run consecutively. The 30-month sentence

represented more than a 50 percent reduction in the guideline

minimum of 63 months for those offenses.

On appeal, as in the district court, Webster challenges

only the district court's refusal to consider his entire

sentence when deciding how far to depart on the guideline _________

offenses. Consequently, we need not decide whether the

government's motion under U.S.S.G. 5K1.1 would have



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triggered the court's authority under 18 U.S.C. 3553(e) to

depart below the statutory minimum, an issue that has divided

the circuits. Compare United States v. Wills, 35 F.3d 1192 _______ _____________ _____

(7th Cir. 1994), with United States v. Sanchez, 32 F.3d 1330 ____ _____________ _______

(8th Cir. 1994), cert. denied, 115 S. Ct. 1119 (1995). See ____________ ___

also Wade v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 1840, 1843 (1992) ____ ____ _____________

(noting circuit split). The government has moved to

dismiss Webster's appeal on the ground that we lack

jurisdiction to review the extent of a district court's

departure from the guideline sentencing range. We do

normally lack jurisdiction over such a challenge, because the

extent of any permitted departure is left to the district

court's discretion. United States v. Pighetti, 898 F.2d 3, 4 _____________ ________

(1st Cir. 1990). But where the departure may have been

affected by a mistake of law, as Webster alleges here,

appellate jurisdiction exists. See United States v. Mariano, ___ _____________ _______

983 F.2d 1150, 1153 (1st Cir. 1993).

To decide this case without adopting a position on the

issue that divides the circuits is somewhat artificial. For

if the Seventh Circuit view were followed, the district court

would have power to depart even as to the mandatory minimum.

But we do not want to take sides here on the larger issue

which has neither been briefed nor argued. Thus, solely for

purposes of this case, we assume arguendo (as the district ________

court did without that qualification) that the government's



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failure to ask for a departure from the statutory minimum did

prevent the district court from departing to a point below

that figure.

On that assumption, we agree that the district court's

position has considerable force: any reduction of a

guideline sentence to offset even in part a consecutive

statutory minimum tends to undercut Congress' insistence on

the statutory minimum. At the same time, Congress has given

the sentencing court almost unreviewable discretion to decide

the amount of the departure after a 5K1.1 motion. To tell

the district court that it must ignore any factor that may ___

seem logically relevant arguably collides with this

intention.

We conclude that in departing from a guideline sentence

the district court is free to exercise its own judgment as to

the pertinence, if any, of a related mandatory consecutive

sentence. Should the district court think that the latter

has some role along with other factors in fixing the extent

of a guideline departure in a particular case, that is within

its authority; and should that court decline to consider the

mandatory minimum in fixing the other sentence, that too is

within its authority. For this court to decide upon the

ingredients of a departure one by one would go very far

toward defeating discretion.





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We are confident that this difference in perspective had

no impact on the sentence in this case. Assuming that the

statutory minimum sentence fixed a floor, the district court

was free not to consider the statutory minimum in fixing the

guideline sentence. We have no reason whatever to think that

the district court would have altered its position, which

rests on a rational policy judgment, if it had been told that

this choice was a matter of its discretion and not of law.

Still less do we have any reason to think that the

district court's sentence would have been less if it had

considered the mandatory minimum sentence. The district

court said that the large departure it granted was based on

the scope of Webster's cooperation and the resulting benefit

to the government. It went on to say that this reduction was

"as lenient as permissible" given the seriousness of the

defendant's criminal conduct. Indeed, if the district court

had wanted to depart further it had ample room to do so.

This is not a case--as some are--where the district

court expressed a desire to impose a lower sentence but

thought itself blocked by a supposed legal barrier. Compare _______

United States v. Rivera, 994 F.2d 942, 953 (1st Cir. 1993). _____________ ______

Here, the consecutive sentence was mentioned by the district

court only after counsel for Webster sought to introduce it

as a mitigating factor. The district court thought that it





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should not be so considered and was free to make this

judgment. Accordingly we uphold the sentence.

II. Bouthot

On February 18, 1994, Bouthot pled guilty to conspiracy

to possess cocaine with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C.

841, 846. On July 1, 1994, after a one-day hearing, Bouthot

was sentenced to 151 months' imprisonment. The district

court found that Bouthot was responsible for 3.83 kilograms

of cocaine, resulting in a base offense level of 30. The

court also added two levels for Bouthot's supervisory role in

the drug ring, and declined to make a downward adjustment for

acceptance of responsibility. U.S.S.G. 3B1.1, 3E1.1.

With a total offense level of 32 and a criminal history

category of III, the guideline sentencing range was 151 to

188 months, and the court chose the minimum.

The district court based the drug quantity on the

testimony of Webster at Bouthot's sentencing hearing.

Webster said that he provided Bouthot with one to three

ounces of cocaine three times a month for 14 months, and made

seven trips to New York with Bouthot to buy cocaine, each

trip yielding six to twelve ounces of cocaine but with one

trip netting a half kilogram. Using middle-to-low figures

for the drug amounts, and adjusting for possible double

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to Bouthot, the district court calculated that Bouthot was

responsible for 3.83 kilograms.

Bouthot claims that Webster's testimony was an

unreliable basis for establishing drug quantity. It is true

that under U.S.S.G. 6A1.3(a) information used for

sentencing must have sufficient indicia of reliability to

support its probable accuracy. See United States v. Tavano, ___ _____________ ______

12 F.3d 301 (1st Cir. 1993). Bouthot cites to a number of

inconsistencies with Webster's previous accounts and points

out that Webster was an admitted perjurer, a drug user, and a

turncoat who received a substantially reduced sentence for

implicating others.

Credibility assessments at sentencing are the province

of the district court and are respected on appeal unless

clearly erroneous. United States v. Olivier-Diaz, 13 F.3d 1, _____________ ____________

4 (1st Cir. 1993). True, Webster was a witness to be

approached with caution; indeed, he had twice perjured

himself in earlier proceedings before the district court.

But these lies occurred before Webster had agreed to

cooperate with the government. The district court was free

to conclude that, once the game was up, Webster had wisely

chosen to cooperate fully and truthfully with the government

in the hope of receiving a lightened sentence.

Bouthot next argues that, even assuming the reliability

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used by the district court as multipliers lacked adequate

evidentiary support; the court settled on two ounces as the

per transaction amount for Bouthot's regular supply and eight

ounces as the per trip amount for six of the seven New York

trips. Webster had testified unequivocally that he gave

Bouthot one to three ounces three times a month and that they

purchased six to twelve ounces on their typical New York

trip. Bouthot did not object to the district court's

method of drug computation at the time of sentencing and

therefore has waived this issue. Uricoechea-Casallas, 946 ___________________

F.2d at 166. In any event, we review the district court's

drug quantity determinations for clear error, United States ______________

v. Morillo, 8 F.3d 864, 871 (1st Cir. 1993), and find no such _______

error here. Where no drugs have been seized, the guidelines

instruct the district court to approximate the amounts

involved, U.S.S.G. 2D1.1 comment. (n.12), and we uphold

such an approximation as long as it represents a reasoned

estimate of quantity. Morillo, 8 F.3d at 871. _______

In this case, the figures chosen by the district court

were the mean figure for the small buys and on the

conservative side for the New York trips, and they were drawn

from ranges with relatively tight margins. This case is

quite unlike United States v. Sepulveda, 15 F.3d 1161, 1197 ______________ _________

(1st Cir. 1993), cert. denied, 114 S. Ct. 2714 (1994), where ____________

we found it error to use the midpoint between four ounces and



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one kilogram as the average transaction. All in all, we

think that the figures chosen by the district court in this

case represent a defensible estimate of drug quantity based

on the available evidence, and this is all that is required.

Morillo, 8 F.3d at 871. See also United States v. _______ ___ ____ ______________

Innamorati, 996 F.2d 456, 490-91 (1st Cir. 1993), cert. __________ _____

denied, 114 S. Ct. 409 (1994). ______

Bouthot also says that the district court erred in

failing to award him a two-point reduction for acceptance of

responsibility. Bouthot did plead guilty to the drug charge

but a plea of guilty is not a guarantee for receiving the

reduction. United States v. Bradley, 917 F.2d 601, 606 (1st _____________ _______

Cir. 1990). The district court found that Bouthot had

understated his criminal involvement. This in turn warranted

a finding that Bouthot had not fully accepted responsibility.

See U.S.S.G. 3E1.1 comment. (n.1). ___

The two-level adjustment for Bouthot's role in the

offense is also supported. Webster and a DEA agent both

testified that Bouthot had recruited an individual named

Conwell to sell small amounts of cocaine for him, paying

Conwell a fixed commission on every sale and providing him

with housing from which to operate. This testimony, accepted

by the district court, is more than enough to qualify Bouthot

for a two-point adjustment for exercising a leadership or

supervisory role in the offense. See U.S.S.G. 3B1.1 ___



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comment. (n.4). United States v. Fuller, 897 F.2d 1217, ______________ ______

1219-22 (1st Cir. 1990).

III. Ravelo

Ravelo was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to possess

cocaine with intent to distribute. On July 21, 1994, the

district court sentenced him to 188 months' imprisonment.

The court determined that Ravelo's base offense level was 34,

based on a drug quantity finding of 198.1 grams of cocaine

base, also known as crack. No upward or downward adjustments

were made. With no prior criminal record, Ravelo's total

offense level yielded a guideline sentencing range of 151 to

188 months, and the court sentenced him at the top of the

range.

As with Bouthot, Webster was the primary witness at

Ravelo's sentencing hearing. Webster testified that Ravelo

was his New York source for cocaine and that he purchased on

average 6 to 8 ounces twice per month from 1990 to 1993.

Consistent with his testimony at Bouthot's sentencing

hearing, Webster said that at times the amounts were upwards

of 11 to 13 ounces and that once he purchased a half kilogram

from Ravelo. Webster also testified that in the summer of

1993 he purchased from Ravelo seven ounces of crack made in

Ravelo's kitchen.

At sentencing the district court accepted Webster's

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(198.1 grams) of crack in the summer of 1993. The crack

finding alone placed Ravelo at a base offense level of 34.

See U.S.S.G. 2D1.1(c)(5). Ravelo, like Bouthot, claims ___

that Webster's testimony was unreliable. But Webster was

very clear about the crack transaction--how much was

involved, who was there, and how it was made. This testimony

was also consistent with what Webster had told law

enforcement agents during his debriefing. For the reasons

already set forth with respect to Bouthot, the district court

was free to conclude that Webster's testimony was credible

and sufficiently reliable.

Ravelo next claims that he should have been held

accountable for no more than 1.26 kilograms of cocaine,

because this was the amount for which Webster was sentenced,

and both participated in the same transactions. Webster's

sentence was based on 1.26 kilograms of cocaine, an amount

computed by a probation officer and stipulated to by the

parties at sentencing. The crack transaction is excluded

from the stipulated amount but the discrepancy is easily

explained.

Evidence of the crack transaction apparently first

surfaced during Webster's debriefing by law enforcement

agents. But before he spoke, Webster obtained a written

promise from the government that none of the information he

provided would be used against him (with exceptions not here



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relevant). Under the guidelines, this promise immunized

Webster from having the crack transaction count towards his

sentence. See U.S.S.G. 1B1.8(a). ___

We see no problem with holding Ravelo responsible for

the greater drug quantity actually proved at his sentencing

hearing. First and foremost, he did not cooperate with the

government and thereby receive immunity for the crack

transaction. Although the guidelines generally seek

uniformity in sentencing, they also encourage divergent

treatment for those who cooperate, in order to promote

greater cooperation with law enforcement. Given Ravelo's

decision not to cooperate, he has no basis for complaining

about leniency to someone who did cooperate.

Ravelo's final challenge to his sentence relates to

comments made by the district court at the time of sentencing

pertaining to Ravelo's alien status. Ravelo, a citizen of

the Dominican Republic, claims that the court's comments

indicate that he was sentenced more harshly because of his

alienage and that a constitutional violation resulted.

Compare United States v. Gomez, 797 F.2d 417, 418-21 (7th _______ ______________ _____

Cir. 1986) with United States v. Leung, 40 F.3d 577, 585-87 ____ ______________ _____

(2d Cir. 1994) and United States v. Borrero-Isaza, 887 F.2d ___ _____________ _____________

1349, 1353-56 (9th Cir. 1989).

The district court made clear that it was sentencing

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continued dishonesty and defiance. Ravelo's alien status was

raised by Ravelo's counsel who requested a lighter sentence

because, as an alien, Ravelo would be subject to deportation

upon his release from prison. The sentencing judge said, in

substance, that Ravelo was not entitled to leniency simply

because he faced deportation, for this would undermine the

deterrent value of Ravelo's sentence. It is thus clear that

the district court did not punish Ravelo more severely

because of his alien status.

IV. Huntington

Huntington pled guilty to two counts of bank fraud, 18

U.S.C. 1344, and one count of conspiracy to commit bank

fraud, 18 U.S.C. 371, 1344. The scheme involved the

forging and cashing of blank checks stolen from a local

health center; the checks were stolen by Webster, forged by

Huntington and cashed by numerous individuals at various

branches of the Casco Northern Bank on newly opened accounts.

Apart from Webster's membership in both conspiracies, the

bank fraud scheme was unrelated to the drug ring. Huntington

pled guilty to the three fraud charges against him on

December 6, 1993.

Some three months later, on the morning of his

presentence conference, Huntington moved to withdraw his plea

on the grounds of involuntariness; Huntington claimed that he

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Huntington's own nephew Stephen Huntington--to plead guilty

or face physical harm. On April 29, 1994, the court held an

evidentiary hearing on the plea-withdrawal motion, at which

Huntington was the sole witness. At the hearing's

conclusion, the court denied the motion, finding that

Huntington's story was a blatant, last-minute fabrication.

The court sentenced Huntington on July 22, 1994.

Huntington's conduct equated to an offense level of 11, which

included a two-level increase for more than minimal planning.

U.S.S.G. 2F1.1(b)(2)(A). The court imposed a two-level

upward adjustment for Huntington's organizational role in the

scheme, U.S.S.G. 3B1.1(c), and a further two-level upward

adjustment for obstruction of justice, based primarily on

Huntington's perjurious testimony at the plea-withdrawal

hearing. U.S.S.G. 3C1.1. With a criminal history category

of III, the resulting guideline sentencing range was 24 to 30

months, and the court sentenced him to the maximum amount of

30 months.

In making an upward adjustment for Huntington's role in

the offense, the district court found as follows:

[T]his defendant collaborated with Webster as to
devise, carry out this scheme, forge and negotiate
stolen checks, and that he typed false and
fictitious amounts and information about the payees
on several stolen checks. The Court further finds
that he forged the authorized signatures and
assisted Webster in giving instructions to other
participants in the scheme, directing their efforts
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Based on the first sentence of these findings, and on certain

other comments made by the sentencing judge, Huntington

argues that the district court misunderstood the legal

standard and thought it enough that Huntington was

extensively involved in the conspiracy. The guideline

requires that Huntington must have controlled or organized

the activities of at least one other participant in the bank

fraud scheme. U.S.S.G. 3B1.1(c); Fuller, 897 F.2d at 1220; ______

United States v. Castellone, 985 F.2d 21, 26 (1st Cir. 1993). _____________ __________



At sentencing the court specifically found that, in

addition to playing a central role in devising the whole

scheme, Huntington directed and instructed various

individuals on how to negotiate the forged checks at the

banks. While the former conduct provides evidence suggesting

an enhanced role, see U.S.S.G. 3B1.1 comment. (n.4), the ___

latter conduct conclusively establishes that Huntington

controlled or organized at least one other participant.

The record supports this assessment. There was evidence

that Huntington instructed an individual named Jolin how to

present the forged checks for acceptance and directed him to

different branches of Casco Northern Bank for that purpose.

Steven Huntington, the appellant's nephew, testified at the

sentencing hearing that the appellant recruited him to take

part in the scheme and that the appellant "did all the



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talking" when distributing the forged checks to him and

another check casher named Glantz. At the very least,

Huntington served as Webster's lieutenant, and the guidelines

do not limit supervision to one person. U.S.S.G. 3B1.1

comment. (n.4). Huntington says that the role-in-the-

offense enhancement amounts to impermissible double counting

in view of the district court's earlier enhancement for more

than minimal planning. The two-level increase for more than

minimal planning was based on the fact that the bank fraud

scheme involved repeated episodes of fraud; the two-level

increase for role in the offense, as we have just discussed,

was predicated on Huntington's direction and supervision of

others. Because the two adjustments were based on separate

factors, there was no double counting. United States v. _____________

Balogun, 989 F.2d 20, 23-24 (1st Cir. 1993). _______

Huntington also contests the upward departure for

obstruction of justice under U.S.S.G. 3C1.1. In making

this adjustment, the court relied upon three separate

instances of alleged perjury, but any one is sufficient.

United States v. Tracy, 36 F.3d 199, 201 (1st Cir.), cert. ______________ _____ _____

denied, 115 S. Ct. 609 (1994). We confine ourselves to the ______

district court's finding that Huntington had testified

falsely at the plea-withdrawal hearing when he claimed that

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Under United States v. Dunnigan, 113 S. Ct. 1111, 1116 _____________ ________

(1993), a witness commits perjury if he or she "gives false

testimony concerning a material matter with a willful intent

to provide false testimony, rather than as a result of

confusion, mistake or faulty memory." In Dunnigan, the ________

Supreme Court instructed that a sentencing court must make

independent findings necessary to establish the enhancement,

preferably addressing each element of the alleged perjury in

"a separate and clear finding." Id. at 1117. Huntington ___

argues that the court's findings are legally insufficient to

support a determination of perjury under the Dunnigan ________

standard. We disagree. On the first episode of perjury the

court found as follows:

The Court bases its findings from the testimony of
this defendant . . . at the proceedings to
determine whether he should be permitted to
withdraw his guilty plea. The Court is satisfied
that his disclaimer of participation in these
offenses in this offense conduct at that time, his
protestation of innocence [was] false, that that _____
testimony related to a material matter and that it _______________
was intended to influence the judgment of the Court _____________________
in making the determination as to whether he should
be permitted to withdraw his plea of guilty. In
that respect the Court is satisfied there was an
obstruction of justice by this defendant.
(emphasis added).

These findings encompass all the predicates for perjury and

thus satisfy the requirements of Dunnigan. ________

As for the factual bases for those findings, the record

amply supports the judge's ruling under the clear error

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hearing Huntington testified that he was absolutely innocent

of the bank fraud charges brought against him, claiming that

he had been duped into signing the checks by Webster. But at

sentencing four months later Huntington admitted his knowing

participation in the bank fraud scheme, although not to the

full extent for which the district court ultimately found him

responsible. As such, Huntington's protestations of

"absolute" innocence at the withdrawal hearing were not in

any way ambiguous and amounted to perjury. See United States ___ _____________

v. Austin, 948 F.2d 783, 789 (1st Cir. 1991) (perjury ______

committed at withdrawal hearing requires obstruction of

justice adjustment).

For the foregoing reasons the sentences of all four

appellants are affirmed. ________

























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