Legal Opinion
United States v. Luis Montes
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 2004No. 03-3934PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Luis Montes pleaded guilty to possessing with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. See 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). The district court sentenced him to 120 months’ imprisonment, the statutory minimum under § 841(b)(1)(A), and to five years’ supervised release. Mr. Montes appeals his sentence. He submits that the court should have granted him relief from the statutory minimum sentence under the “safety valve” provision. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) and U.S.S.G. § 5C1.2. For the reasons set forth in the following opinion, we affirm the judgment of the district…
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