Legal Opinion
United States v. Guadalupe Castro
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 12, 2016No. 15-11059PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises from a district court’s denial of a mitigating role adjustment under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.2. Because- the court’s analysis was not clearly erroneous, we AFFIRM.
I
On April 27, 2015, Guadalupe Castro and Cynthia Uribe were arrested for • transporting six bricks of heroin weighing 5,992 grams in their vehicle, which Castro was driving. In post-arrest interviews, Castro and Uribe admitted to transporting narcotics for a drug trafficking organization (“DTO”). They confessed that, on at least two prior occasions, they had transported heroin…
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