United States v. Steven Lee Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the defendant’s explanation that a gun found in his backpack was not connected to his marijuana garden but instead was used to shoot snakes, where the “nature of the gun was more in the form of a potential weapon than it was . . . a sporting type of gun”
• “[E]very circuit to consider the issue has held that conduct which warrants an increase in sentence under § 2D1.1(b)(1) necessarily defeats application of the safety valve.”
• “Every circuit to consider the issue has held that conduct which warrants an increase in sentence under § 2D1.1(b)(1) necessarily defeats application of the safety valve.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).