United States v. Maroquin-Bran

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “rewriting [the Guidelines] is beyond our purview as a court and remains the domain of either the Sentencing Commission or the Congress”
• holding that modified categorical approach applied to question whether defendant was convicted of “sale” or “transportation” of marijuana under California law for purposes of “drug trafficking” enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A) (2008)
• “[R]ewriting [the Guidelines] is beyond our purview as a court and properly remains the domain of either the Sentencing Commission or the Congress.”
• rejecting the government’s interpretation because it would “yield an absurd and unjust result”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).