Court Opinion

ID: 8421208
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-03 21:12:05.170323+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:48:24.335784
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MEMORANDUM **
Candelaria Lopez appeals the sentence imposed following her guilty plea to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 8742. We review for clear error the district court’s factual finding that a defendant is ineligible for relief under USSG § 5C1.2,1 see United States v. Franco-Lopez, 312 F.3d 984, 993 (9th Cir.2002), and we affirm.
Lopez contests the district court’s finding that she was not eligible for so-called “safety valve” relief from the mandatory minimum sentence for her offense. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f); USSG § 5C1.2. The district court found that Lopez failed to meet the fifth criterion for this relief, which requires a defendant to provide, prior to sentencing, all information she has that is relevant to the offense, regardless of its usefulness to the government. See United States v. Skrestha, 86 F.3d 935, 939 (9th Cir.1996). The district court did not clearly err in making that finding.
Lopez also argues that the district court improperly prevented her from supplementing her earlier eligibility statements to the government after her sentencing hearing was continued to allow her to respond to government objections. However, Lopez had already represented to the court that her statements were truthful and complete. The continuance was to afford her notice of the respects in which the government maintained she had not been truthful, and to give her an opportunity to present evidence to the contrary. See Franco-Lopez, 312 F.3d at 994. It was not for the purpose of having her add to what she already claimed was complete. Thus, the district court did not err.
AFFIRMED.

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. All references to the Sentencing Guidelines *891are to the November l, 2002, version thereof.