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U.S. v. Velasco-Heredia, No. 00-50107 (9th Cir.) (319 F.3d 1080) (January 21, 2003) (Judge Stephen S. Trott)

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2003 published in Punch and Jurists January 06, 2003
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Mandatory Minimums.

Here the Court held that the district court had erred when it determined by a preponderance of the evidence that because the defendant was responsible for more than 50 kilograms of marijuana, he must be sentenced to a mandatory minimum sentence.

Following the Supreme Court’s disappointing plurality decision in Harris ...

 

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