Pedro Martinez-Negrete v. United States
SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Where a criminal defendant shows that the district court made a clear legal error when applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, but the government responds with an alternative, debatable route through which the district court might have reached the same advisory guideline range, has the defendant satisfied the second prong of plain-error review by showing a clear or obvious error?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Where a criminal defendant shows that the district court made a clear legal error when applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, but the government responds with an alternative, debatable route through which the district court might have reached the same advisory guideline range, has the defendant satisfied the second prong of plain-error review by showing a clear or obvious error? ii PARTIES Pedro Martinez-Negrete is the Petitioner; he was the defendant-appellant below. The United States of America is the Respondent; it was the plaintiffappellee below. iii