Criminal Law : Sentencing – Reduction – Mitigating Role

Where a defendant in a drug case argued for a mitigating role reduction on the basis that his involvement was limited to being a courier for one transaction, a courier role alone is not sufficient to warrant such a reduction, and the defendant did not show that the district court failed to consider relevant sentencing factors or that the sentence was substantively unreasonable.

Judgment is affirmed.

U.S. v. Salazar-Aleman (MLW No.65854/Case No. 12-3746 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8^th Circuit, Kelly, J.) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas, Dawson, J. (Angela Lorene Pitts, Fayetteville, Arkansas, argued for appellant) (Steven Northup Snyder, Fort Smith, Arkansas, argued for appellee).

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