United States Fifth Circuit

The safety valve guideline in USSG 5C1.2 expressly allows a sentence without regard to any statutory minimum, and it does not matter what order the district court applies the guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2001
• Published 08/29/2001

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., David Benjamin Gerger (argued), Mike J. DeGeurin, Foreman, DeGeurin, Nugent & Gerger, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.