United States v. Michael Rodriguez

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• holding that “when a defendant seeks to establish facts which would lead to a sentence reduction under the Guidelines, he shoulders the burden of proving those facts by a preponderance of the evidence”
• defendant bears the burden of proving intent and capability, since like mitigating factors, they have the effect of decreasing the defendant’s sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).