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This is a brief discussion of the law associated with themandatory minimum sentencing provisions offederal controlled substance(drug)lawsanddrug-related federal firearms and recidivist statutes.Thesemandatory minimums, however, are not as mandatory as they might appear.The government may elect not to prosecute the underlying offenses.Federal courtsmaydisregardotherwise applicable mandatory sentencing requirementsat the behest of the government.Thefederal courtsmay also bypasssome ofthemfor the benefit of certain low-level, nonviolent offenders withvirtually spotlesscriminal recordsunder the so-called"safety valve" provision.Finally, in cases where the mandatory minimums would usually apply, thePresident may pardon offenders or commute their sentences before the minimum term of imprisonment has been served.Be that as it may,sentencing in drug cases,particularlymandatory minimum drug sentencing, hascontributedtoan explosion in thefederal prison population and attendant costs.Thus, the federal inmate population at the end of 1976 was 23,566, and at the end of 1986 it was 36,042.OnJanuary 4, 2018,the federal inmate population was 183,493.As of September 30, 2016, 49.1% of federal inmates were drug offenders and 72.3% of those were convicted of an offense carrying a mandatory minimum.In 1976, federal prisons cost $183.914 million; in 1986, $550.014 million; and in 2016, $6.751 billion (est.).

The second Commission report recommended that Congress consider expanding eligibility for the safety valve, and adjusting the scope, severity, and the prior offenses that trigger the recidivist provisions under firearm statute

8. However, neither the statutory safety valve provision at 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), nor the substantial assistance provision of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e) fully ameliorate the impact of drug mandatory minimum penalties on relatively low-level offenders.

Low-level drug offenders can escape some of the mandatory minimum sentences for which they qualify under the safety valve found in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f). Congress created the safety valve after it became concerned that the mandatory minimum sentencing provisions could have resulted in equally severe penalties for both the more and the less culpable offenders.

The safety valve is not available to avoid the mandatory minimum sentences that attend other offenses, even those closely related to the covered offenses. Section 860 (21 U.S.C. § 860), which outlaws violations of Section 841 near schools, playgrounds, or public housing facilities and sets the penalties for violation at twice what they would be under Section 841, is not covered. Those charged with a violation of Section 860 are not eligible for relief under the safety valve provisions.

For the convictions to which the safety valve does apply, the defendant must convince the sentencing court by a preponderance of the evidence that he satisfies each of the safety valve"s five requirements.

The safety valve has two disqualifications designed to reserve its benefits to the nonviolent. One involves instances in which the offense resulted in death or serious bodily injury. The other involves the use of violence, threats, or the possession of weapons. The weapon or threat of violence disqualification turns upon the defendant"s conduct or the conduct of those he "aided or abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, procured, or willfully caused."

The most heavily litigated safety valve criterion requires full disclosure on the part of the defendant. The requirement extends not only to information concerning the crimes of conviction, but also to information concerning other crimes that "were part of the same course of conduct or of a common scheme or plan," including uncharged related conduct.

Neither Apprendi nor Alleyne limits Congress"s authority to establish mandatory minimum sentences or limits the authority of the courts to impose them. They simply dictate the procedural safeguards that must accompany the exercise of that authority. Thus, the lower federal appellate courts have held that the neither the Fifth nor Sixth Amendment requires that "facts that determine whether a defendant is eligible under the safety valve for a sentence below the statutory minimum" need be found by the jury beyond a reasonable doubt.

Mr A, a 30-year-old man with a history of S. anginosus mitral and aortic valve infective endocarditis (secondary to intravenous [IV] drug abuse), had both his mitral and aortic valves replaced; he subsequently developed Enterococcus faecalis bacteremia. Several months later while on an indefinite course of amoxicillin/ciprofloxacin prophylaxis, Mr A arrived at the emergency department complaining of fever, back pain, and weakness in the setting of a relapse of IV heroin use; he had not been taking his antibiotics for the previous 4 days. Initially, 4 of 4 blood cultures revealed α-hemolytic strep, and Mr A was admitted to the hospital for IV antibiotics. Cardiac imaging studies showed thickening of his prosthetic valves consistent with endocarditis, and an echolucency was suggestive of an aortic root suture line dehiscence. Consultants from the cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery departments concluded that reconstruction was not a viable option given his cardiac anatomy and the difficulties he had experienced during his valve replacement surgery. Conservative treatment was pursued. Mr A was started on IV antibiotics (vancomycin, ampicillin, and streptomycin); these treatments were switched to IV penicillin and gentamycin on hospital day 2 after susceptibility data were reviewed. His other medications included gabapentin (600 mg 3 times a day) and multivitamins. On admission to the hospital, Mr A’s urine toxicologic screen was positive for opiates, and he admitted to heroin usage on the day of presentation.

Given the staff’s suspicion of Mr A’s illicit drug use, daily urine toxicologic screens were obtained until the day of discharge. Urine opiates that do not cross-react with urine methadone were positive on hospital days 4 and 5 and negative on all subsequent days. Daily urine toxicologic screens specific for methadone remained positive throughout admission. The treatment team interpreted the positive urine opiate screen as evidence of surreptitious use. As a safety measure, Mr A was switched to a single room at the end of the corridor and his visitor privileges were rescinded, a move that he protested heavily, stating that it unfairly deprived him of the chance to interact with loved ones at the most trying time of his life. A urine 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM; a short-lived metabolite of heroin) screen was later requested to enhance diagnostic certainty. The urine sample was negative for the metabolite on hospital day 4, as were all subsequent samples, creating disagreement among the team about whether the patient truly had been using heroin while hospitalized. Mr A was discharged in a stable medical condition to a rehabilitation facility for continued IV antibiotics on hospital day 8.

In the case in which an individual tampers with a urine sample via a masking agent, the intention is to interfere with the detection of a drug or its metabolite. The masking agent can be a household product (such as bleach or vinegar) or a commercially available compound (such as sodium or potassium nitrate or peroxide/peroxidase). Laboratories attempt to detect such alterations by noting the color and appearance of the specimen and will shake it to assess for bubbles or foam that may suggest the presence of soap, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, or bleach. When individuals attempt to substitute their urine sample with clean urine (obtained commercially or from a friend), this may be detected via temperature recording that some laboratories obtain within 4 minutes of collection. Finally, a wide variety of commercial detoxification products exist that use frequent ingestion of water or herbal supplements that promise to aid with avoidance of detection. Dilution of the urine is detected through measurement of urine creatinine and assessment of the urine color, which will also detect direct addition of water to the sample following micturation. Detoxification kits will sometimes add vitamin B compounds to normalize urine color or creatine to offset the laboratories’ precautions; however, safety concerns exist with this type of alteration, most notably electrolyte abnormalities induced by ingestion of large amounts of water.

Can’t there be any way to get around that set-in-stone bottom line?  Yes.  There is also a statutory exception which allows the federal judge to dip below that mandatory minimum number of years in some situations.  It is called the “Safety Valve” defense.

The law, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f), provides for an exception that allows the federal judge some leeway in drug crime convictions where he or she would otherwise be required to follow the mandatory minimum sentencing statute.  This is the Safety Value statute. It states as follows:

The only way to allow for this exception to be applied in a federal sentencing hearing is for the defense to argue its application and to provide authenticated and admissible support for use of the Safety Valve.

How does the defense do this?  It takes much more than referencing the exception to the general rule itself.  The defense will have to demonstrate the convicted defendant meets the Safety Valve’s five (5) requirements.

For a successful safety valve defense, the defense has to show that the total Criminal History Points are four (4) or less.  If you have a maximum of four Criminal History points, you have met the first criteria for the safety valve.

Note:  prior to the passage of the First Step Act, things were much harsher.  If the defense had even two Criminal History Points, then the accused was ineligible for the safety valve.  The First Step Act increased the number of points, or score, from one to four as the maximum allowed for application of the safety valve.  For more on the First Step Act, see The First Step Act and Texas Criminal Defense in 2019: Part 1 of 2 and The First Step Act and Texas Criminal Defense in 2019: Part 2 of 2.

Looking at the Safety Valve statute ( 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)), the second step in achieving application of the safety valve defense involves the circumstances of the underlying criminal activity and whether or not it involved violence of threats or violence, or if the defendant possessed a firearm at the time.

Meanwhile, the Fifth Circuit has ruled that under the Safety Valve Statute, the standard for the government  is much higher. According to their ruling, in order to be disqualified from application of the safety valve because of possession of a firearm, the defendant has to have been actually in possession of the firearm or in construction possession of it. See, US v. Wilson, 105 F.3d 219 (5th Cir. 1997).

This is the example of the importance of effective criminal defense representation, where research reveals that it is easier to achieve a safety valve defense with a reference to case law.  The Fifth Circuit allows a situation where someone can get two (2) points under the USSG (“enhancement”) and still be eligible for the safety valve defense.

Being bound by this commentary, we conclude that in determining a defendant’s eligibility for the safety valve, § 5C1.2(2) allows for consideration of only the defendant’s conduct, not the conduct of his co-conspirators. As it was Wilson’s co-conspirator, and not Wilson himself, who possessed the gun in the conspiracy,the district court erred in concluding that Wilson was ineligible to receive the benefit of § 5C1.2. Because application of § 5C1.2 is mandatory, see U.S.S.G. § 5C1.2 (providing that the court “shall” impose a sentencing without regard to the statutory minimum sentence if the defendant satisfies the provision’s criteria), we vacate Wilson’s sentence and remand for resentencing.

The defense must also be able to prove that the defendant’s role in the underlying criminal offense did not result in the death or bodily injury of someone else to achieve the safety valve defense under  18 U.S.C. § 3553(f).

If the defense can prove with authenticated and admissible evidence that the defendant did not distribute a drug or controlled substance that ended up with someone’s death, or severe bodily injury, then the safety valve defense will be available to them.

If you are to achieve the safety valve defense, you cannot receive any “role adjustment” under the Sentencing Guidelines.  This must be established to the court by your defense attorney at the sentencing.

I realize that for many people, this language brings with it the assumption that the defendant has to be a snitch in order to meet this requirement for the safety valve defense.  This is not true.

With an experienced criminal defense lawyer, what it does mean is that the defendant has a meeting with the authorities with the goal of meeting the Safety Valve Statute requirements and no more.

The attorney can limit the scope of the meeting.  He or she can make sure that law enforcement follows the rules for the meeting.   The meeting is necessary for the defendant to achieve a safety valve defense, so there is no way to avoid a safety valve interview.

I arranged for my client to have his safety valve meeting as well as establishing the other criteria needed for application of the Safety Valve statute.  I was present at the meeting.  There was no cooperation regarding the other defendants, and he did nothing more than the minimum to qualify for the defense.  He was no snitch.

As a result, the safety valve was applied by the federal judge and my client achieved a safety valve application where he was sentenced to 8 years for distribution of meth: well below the 10 years of the mandatory minimums and the USSG calculation in his case of around 14 years.

Sadly, the same day that my client was sentenced, so were several of the co-conspirator defendants.  I was aware that they were also eligible for the safety valve defense.  However, the federal agent at the sentencing hearings that day told me that their lawyers never contact the government for a safety valve meeting.

They were never debriefed, so they could not meet the requirements for application of the safety value statute.  The judge had no choice –they each had to be sentenced to the mandatory minimum sentences under the law.

Cepeda, J. A., Beletsky, L., Sawyer, A., Serio-Chapman, C., Smelyanskaya, M., Han, J., Sherman, S. G. (2017). Occupational Safety in the Age of the Opioid Crisis: Needle. Journal of Urban Health, 94(1), 100-103.

If you are charged with a crime by the United States Department of Justice, you may be facing a mandatory minimum sentence, especially if you were arrested on federal drug charges or federal gun charges. However, you may be eligible for the safety valve provision which can significantly reduce your sentence. To learn more about the safety valve provision, along with the strict guidelines for qualifying, Bill Finn, a Raleigh federal lawyer, is sharing what you need to know.

The Safety Valve Provision is outlined in 18 U.S. Code § 3553 (f) and was passed by Congress as part of the Sentencing Reform Act in 1984. This was designed to ensure that disproportionate sentences were not given to nonviolent, “low level” offenders with little to no criminal history. The Safety Valve is typically applied to drug crimes with a mandatory minimum, allowing a judge to reduce the sentence less than what is required in the U.S. Code.

In addition to the lighter sentence, the Safety Valve offers a two-point reduction in the total offense. Every federal crime has an “offense level” rated between one and 43, with the higher numbers representing more serious crimes or crimes with compounded factors. For example, if an offender obstructs justice during the investigation, the offense level is increased by two levels, whereas if they clearly accept responsibility for their actions, their offense level may be lowered by two levels.

For those who are eligible for the Safety Valve Provision, the reduction of two offense points can significantly reduce their sentence by months or even years.

Did Not Organize or Lead Others:The defendant can not be the leader, organizer, or manager of a group committing the offense. For example, if the defendant exhibited any type of control over another individual in relation to the offense, they are disqualified from receiving the Safety Valve Provision.

Additionally, the synthesis of morphine by Friedrich Sertuerner of Germany in 1803 led physicians to label the drug as “God’s own medicine” for its reliability, long-lasting effects, and safety. The mid-nineteenth century invention of the hypodermic syringe and the use of injectable morphine as a pain reliever during the American Civil War led to the first wave of morphine addiction. In 1895, Heinrich Dreser, working for the Bayer Company in Germany, synthesized heroin. Bayer began to market the drug in 1898. In the early 1900s heroin provided a potential solution to the increasing problem of morphine addiction. Also, the philanthropic St. James Society mounted a campaign to mail free samples of heroin to morphine addicts. However, heroin addiction grew, particularly in northern industrial slums.

Long-term effects of heroin appear after repeated use for some period of time. Typically, chronic users potentially develop collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, cellulites, and liver disease. Pulmonary complications, including various types of pneumonia, may result from the poor health condition of the abuser, as well as from heron’s depressing effects on respiration. In addition to the effects of the drug itself, street heroin may have additives that do not really dissolve and result in clogging the blood vessels that lead to the lungs, liver, kidneys, or brain. This can cause infection or even death of small patches of cells in vital organs.

Common side effects include respiratory depression (decreased breathing), dry mouth, drowsiness, impaired mental function, constipation, and addiction.abscesses, infected heart valves, blood-borne infections, and pneumonia.opioid withdrawal symptoms can begin within hours of the last use.morphine.

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