United States v. Angeles, No. 19-10937 (5th Cir. 2020)
Annotate this CaseThe Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's below-Guidelines sentence of 280 months in prison imposed after she pleaded guilty to drug trafficking. The court rejected defendant's argument that the district court coerced her into withdrawing objections to her presentence report by threatening to deny an acceptance-of-responsibility reduction where the district court treated withdrawal separately from acceptance and the district court did not pressure defendant into abandoning her objections by conveying before the hearing its tentative conclusion that her objections were without merit. Therefore, the court found no error, much less the clear or obvious mistake necessary to overcome plain error review.
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