Legal Opinion
United States v. Marquez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 12, 2002No. 01-1910PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to examine the so-called “safety valve,” 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) — a device through which a court may sentence a defendant without regard to an otherwise-applicable statutory mandatory minimum, provided that the defendant meets certain criteria. After per-scrutation of the parties’ briefs and the record, we conclude that the sentencing court’s refusal to apply the safety valve was neither clearly erroneous nor based upon a mistaken view of the law. Consequently, we affirm the sentence imposed below.
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Background
We derive the facts from the Rule 11…
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