context: The district court could not have reduced Barrera's criminal history score simply to make him eligible for safety-valve relief. Other circuits have reached the same conclusion.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 425 F.3d 157, 157
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that the "district court was plainly correct when it decided that it did not have the discretion to award [appellant] only one point under the Guidelines once it had determined, by the process provided by the Guidelines, that [appellant] had two such points"
citation_a.sentence: See United States v. Hunt, 503 F.3d 34, 37 (1 st Cir.2007) (holding that the plain language of the Guidelines precludes appellant from receiving the benefit of the safety valve regardless of whether the district court wanted to grant a downward departure because appellant had two criminal history points); see also Barrero, 425 F.3d at 157 (holding that the “district court was plainly correct when it decided that it did not have the discretion to award [appellant] only one point under the Guidelines once it had determined, by the process provided by the Guidelines, that [appellant] had two such points”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 503 F.3d 34, 37
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that the plain language of the Guidelines precludes appellant from receiving the benefit of the safety valve regardless of whether the district court wanted to grant a downward departure because appellant had two criminal history points
citation_b.sentence: See United States v. Hunt, 503 F.3d 34, 37 (1 st Cir.2007) (holding that the plain language of the Guidelines precludes appellant from receiving the benefit of the safety valve regardless of whether the district court wanted to grant a downward departure because appellant had two criminal history points); see also Barrero, 425 F.3d at 157 (holding that the “district court was plainly correct when it decided that it did not have the discretion to award [appellant] only one point under the Guidelines once it had determined, by the process provided by the Guidelines, that [appellant] had two such points”).