J.F., mother of H.T., H.D.F., Minor Children v. Florida Department of Children and Families

How courts have described this case

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

• relying on North Carolina state law’s treatment of no contest plea “precisely as an Alford plea” in case assessing whether conviction pursuant to no contest plea supported application of cross-reference under Sentencing Guidelines
• “A sentencing court may apply [a Sentencing Guidelines] cross-reference ... to conduct amounting to a violation of state law.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[T]he Government has the burden to prove a cross-referenced offense by a preponderance of the evidence. . . .”
• “[T]he Government has the burden to prove a cross-referenced offense by a preponderance of the evidence.”
• “A sentencing court may apply a Sentencing Guidelines cross-reference to conduct amounting to a violation of state law.” (cleaned up)
• “[T]he Government has the burden to prove a cross-referenced offense by a preponderance of the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).