Court Opinion

ID: 9441465
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 17:46:39.828756+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:28:24.536906
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*576CLAY, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
Although I concur in the result reached by the majority, I hesitate to concur in the reasoning of the majority opinion because of the possibility that the district court lacked the jurisdiction to impose a sentence below the applicable statutory minimum sentence. See Melendez v. United States, 518 U.S. 120, 130-31, 116 S.Ct. 2057, 135 L.Ed.2d 427 (1996) (holding that a district court lacks authority to pierce a statutory minimum sentence under U.S.S.G. § 5K1.1). However, the jurisdictional issue, which was neither briefed by the parties nor addressed by the panel, is best left to another day.