United States v. Juan Ramos-Delgado

How courts have described this case

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

• holding § 2L1.1(b)(7) adjustment may be applied if defendant is but-for cause of death and rejecting direct or proximate- causation standard
• concluding proximate cause not required for death enhancement and “only causation requirement” derives from Guideline § 1B1.3 (relevant conduct)
• “But-for causation . . . is not a difficult burden to meet.”
• “As long as the defendants’ actions were a but-for cause of the ultimate harm, it does not matter whether the initial action directly resulted in the harm but only that the harm would not have occurred but-for the initial action.”
• noting circuit split on this issue
• rejecting a proximate causation requirement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).