United States v. John P. Miller

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• holding that because the government’s assertion was “merely speculative” it was not proper grounds to deny a safety valve reduction
• noting that “at least one” factor “is required to infer a ‘common scheme or plan’”
• finding that the prior drug activity was “relatively remote in time” and that neither similarity nor regularity were present
• noting that “[t]he safety valve provision is an exception to the general rule” that the Guidelines’ range cannot be lower than the “statutory mandatory minimum sentence”
• finding that a drug offense that occurred 21 months prior to the offense of conviction was too remote in time to be considered a positive factor for same course of conduct
• noting defendant’s “purported untruthfulness as to his knowledge of [underlying criminal conduct] would justify the denial of the safety-valve reduction”

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