United States v. Jose Jesus Alvarez-Coria

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant was not less culpable than his codefendants where the defendant, among other things, coordinated some of his co-conspirators’ movements
• holding that a refusal to grant a minor-role reduction was not clearly erroneous where the defendant was entrusted with transporting drugs and was held responsible only for the amount of drugs that he agreed to transport
• holding that the district court did not plainly err in refusing to grant the defendant a minor role reduction where the defendant was held accountable only for admitting to the location and transport of drugs to Atlanta, Georgia
• explaining the defendant bears the burden of establishing his qualification for a minor role reduction by a preponderance of the evidence
• “Whether the presence of [a specific drug] was reasonably foreseeable to [the defendant] is immaterial because [the defendant] is being held accountable for his own conduct, not the conduct of his co-conspirators.”

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