United States v. Petronilo Payan Salvador, United States of America v. Alonso Urquidez-Tellez

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• concluding that the defendant did not have a minor role even though he did not have decision-making authority because he played an “important role” as translator by facilitating transactions, being present at the transactions, and handing over the drugs
• concluding there was no clear error in finding the defendant was not a minor player where, despite his lack of decision-making authority, he had an important role in the conspiracy
• affirming the denial of a minor-role reduction to a conspirator whose “primary role in the [narcotics] conspiracy was as a translator”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).