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Type
Opinion
Filed
July 10, 2019
Case
United States v. Pedro Payano
Case status
Decided

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KRAUSE, Circuit Judge. Appellant Pedro Ramon Payano appeals his sentence on the ground that the District Court's mistaken belief as to the applicable statutory maximum constitutes plain error. In his view, this error warrants resentencing by way of analogy to Molina-Martinez v. United States where the Supreme Court held that an incorrectly calculated United States S…

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