United States v. Zavalza-Rodriguez

How courts have described this case

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• noting that to preclude the safety valve requires “active possession” and “a closer degree of connection”
• precluding application of relief under § 501.2(a)(2) when a defendant actively possesses a firearm in connection with the offense
• finding there was no “logical contradiction in our referring to a weapon as possessed for purposes of a sentence enhancement with one outcome and then referring to that same weapon for purposes of a sentence reduction with a different outcome”
• “Possession in the context of § 2D1.1(b)(1) is therefore possession by proximity— constructive possession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).