United States v. Rodriguez-Parra

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• noting that the suspended part of a sentence is not part of the sentence of imprisonment
• finding no clear or obvious error where the argument relied on “a careful parsing of all the relevant authorities, including the sentencing guidelines and applicable decisions”
• “There is no plain error if the legal landscape at the time showed the issue was disputed, even if . . . the district court turns out to have been wrong.”
• “[T]o satisfy the second .prong of plain error inquiry, ‘the legal error must be clear or obvious, rather than subject to reasonable [dispute].’” (alterations in original) (quoting United States v. Ellis, 564 F.3d 370, 377-78 (5th Cir. 2009))

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