United States v. Bradley Olson

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “ ‘using’ a minor to carryout criminal activity entails more than being the equal partner of that minor in committing a crime”
• determining that a defendant “must do more than simply participate in a crime with a minor” to justify a §3B1.4 adjustment
• stating that \’using’ a minor to carry out criminal activity entails more than being the equal partner of that minor in committing a crime\
• observing that the categorical approach prohibits any inquiry into “the defendant’s actual criminal conduct” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• concluding, after “[l]ooking at the face of both the [congressional] directive and the guideline,” that the enacted Guideline directly overruled “an explicit Congressional declaration” and was therefore invalid
• rejecting the broad conclusion of the Eighth Circuit in Vincent that the only limits on the Commission’s authority are ones of a constitutional dimension

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).