Court Opinion

ID: 9497017
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:41:41.215758+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:57:57.567842
License: Public Domain

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the judgment.
I do not join the majority opinion, because I do not believe that the rationale for its holding is one that is permissible under the guidelines. I do, however, believe that it was error for the district court to deny Rise the acceptance of responsibility reduction, given Rise’s post-arrest conduct. In my view, that conduct satisfied the legal requirements set forth in the guidelines for the acceptance of responsibility reduction. I do not believe that Rise’s responses to the court’s questions during the plea colloquy and sentencing, made under the particular circumstances of contrition and remorse here, evidence a failutre to accept responsibiity within the meaning of the guidelines.