Cortes v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a defendant must provide information about other “relevant conduct”
• stating that defendant’s “abbreviated statements” did not meet the fifth safety valve requirement that a defendant fully disclose information about acts associated with the offense
• “In reviewing a trial court’s eviden-tiary determinations,' this court reviews ... for clear error the [trial] court’s factual determinations that underpin its legal conclusions.”
• “An intent to distribute the cocaine may be inferred from the large quantity ... of the cocaine.”
• “[A] defendant’s participation in the conspiracy’s common purpose may be inferred from the defendant’s actions and reactions to the circumstances.”
• “Statements which identify another co-conspirator as the source of drugs involved in the conspiracy are in furtherance of the conspiracy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).