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Parties Involved:
Jose Lujan-Lopez
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

 TENTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

JOSE LUJAN-LOPEZ,

 Defendant - Appellant.

No. 15-1124

 (D.C. Nos. 1:14-CV-03159-RBJ and 

1:12-CR-00149-RBJ-1 )

(D. Colorado)

ORDER DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY 

Before, HARTZ, TYMKOVICH, and MORITZ, Circuit Judges. 

 

 Defendant José Lujan-Lopez seeks a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal 

the denial of his motion for relief under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 by the United States District 

Court for the District of Colorado. To obtain a COA he must show “that reasonable 

jurists could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the [motion] should have 

been resolved in a different manner or that the issues presented were adequate to deserve 

encouragement to proceed further.” Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000) 

FILED 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

June 30, 2015

Elisabeth A. Shumaker 

Clerk of Court

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(internal quotation marks omitted). In our view, no court could improve upon the district 

court’s thorough, cogent, and sensitive opinion denying relief. To address an argument 

Defendant makes on appeal, we add only that Defendant could not obtain an offenselevel decrease of more than two levels for acceptance of responsibility without a 

supporting motion by the government. See USSG § 3E1.1(b). For the reasons stated in 

the district court’s opinion, which we attach and incorporate, we deny a COA and dismiss 

the appeal. 

ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

 Harris L Hartz 

Circuit Judge 

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