United States v. Patillo

How courts have described this case

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• under the mandatory minimum approach, it makes no difference whether the “defendant has rescued fifteen children from a burning building, or had won the Congressional Medal of Honor”
• under the mandatory minimum approach, it makes no difference whether the “defendant has rescued fifteen children from a burning building, or had won the Congressional Medal of Honor”
• “I . . . will no longer apply this law without protest, and with no hope for change. Statu- tory mandatory minimum sentences create injustice because the sentence is determined without looking at the particular defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).