United States v. Marc A. Snoddy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant convicted of a sole- participant offense may nonetheless be entitled to a mitigating role adjustment
• applying clear error standard to district court’s denial on factual grounds of downward adjustment for role
• “[I]n an abundance of caution, we will remand to the district court for specific factual determinations of [the defendant’s] role in the offense and resentencing under a correct construction of [the relevant sentencing guideline].”
• “[T]he sentencing judge’s conclusion that U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 did not permit a ‘minor participant’ reduction to a defendant pleading guilty to a ‘sole participant’ offense is inconsistent with current law and must be reversed.”

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