CORRECTED ORDER ON MOTION FOR DOWNWARD DEPARTURE
FERGUSON, District Judge.
The threshold question is whether the failure of the government to charge the quantity of drugs involved in a conspiracy, so that the jury would have been required to find the amount of drugs necessary to support a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment, prevents the court from making the finding as a basis for imposing a sentence which increases the statutory maximum.
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