United States v. Geovanni Quintero Rendon

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• holding that “this circuit . . . [has] not embellished the MDLEA with a nexus requirement”
• explaining that a district court “must exercise its best judg- ment as to the application of the facts to these standard, its decision is entitled to one of deference on appeal” (quoting United States v. Vallejo, 297 F.3d 1154, 1169 (11th Cir. 2002))
• rejecting the defendant’s argument that “subject matter jurisdiction is an element of the charged crimes . . . to be decided by a jury” as foreclosed by Tinoco
• upholding enhancement where the defendant hired his co-conspirators for the drug trafficking trip, drove the boat to the meet-up point, and directed them to throw the drugs overboard when a Navy plane spotted them
• upholding a four-level enhancement where a defendant operated a drug smuggling boat, hired at least two participants, knew the delivery location of the drugs, and gave instructions to throw cocaine overboard when a Navy plane flew overhead
• “Because stateless vessels do not fall within the veil of another sovereign’s territorial protection, all nations can treat them as their own territory and subject them to their laws.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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