Opinion ID: 201315
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Upward Adjustments

Text: 19 Martinez challenges both the two-level upward adjustment pursuant to § 3C1.2 for reckless endangerment during flight from a law enforcement officer and the two-level upward adjustment under § 3C1.1 for obstruction of justice. 8 20 We need not resolve these issues. We have concluded that the district court correctly calculated a base offense level of forty-three, and the uncontested adjustments, including the only downward adjustment at issue, balance each other perfectly. That is, neither Martinez nor the government challenge either the three-level upward adjustment for death of a government officer under § 3A1.2, or the three-level downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility under § 3E1.1. Consequently, even if the district court had applied only the uncontested adjustments —or, put differently, even if we found that application of the contested adjustments was erroneous—the total offense level would be forty-three. Such a change would not affect Martinez's sentence because all offense levels of forty-three or above mandate a life sentence. See U.S.S.G. Ch. 5 Pt. A & cmt. n. 2 (mandating life sentence for offense level of forty-three, and treating all higher offense levels as equivalent to level forty-three). 21 We do not address an allegedly erroneous sentencing computation if ... correcting it will neither change the defendant's sentence nor relieve him from some unfair collateral consequence. United States v. Saccoccia, 58 F.3d 754, 790-91 (1st Cir.1995) (refusing to determine whether the district court erroneously imposed an upward adjustment for obstruction of justice because correction of [that] allegedly erroneous finding would not eliminate the certainty of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment). Therefore, we decline to pass on the propriety of the contested upward adjustments. 9 22 AFFIRMED.