United States v. Sabino Mosqueda-Estevez

How courts have described this case

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

• noting, in a pre-Rita decision, that defendants “do not have a right to have their sentences handed down according to any particular script”
• laying out the three-step procedure that district courts should follow when sentencing a defendant
• despite jury instruction’s vague reference to “firearm,” finding no constructive amendment where the only firearms introduced into evidence were those referred to in the indictment
• despite jury instruction’s vague reference to “firearm,” finding no constructive amendment where the only firearms introduced into evidence were those referred to in the indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).