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· 7/1/1999

United States v. Guillermo Perales Morones

Citations

  • 181 F.3d 888
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 14817
  • 1999 WL 444513

How courts have described this case

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

  • defendant bears burden of proving he is entitled to safety-valve relief by preponderance of evidence
  • \a defendant who cynically waits to see what the government can prove at sentencing before telling all is unlikely to warrant safety valve relief\
  • “Although the defendant in this type of case may have told the government inconsistent stories, it serves the purposes of the safety valve to grant relief if the sentencing court is persuaded that the last story is complete and truthful.”

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Judges: Wollman, Loken, Arnold

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