Episode 36: 2025 Guideline Amendments Miniseries, Part 4 - Mitigating Role and Drug Offenses
(Published November 18, 2025) The 2025 Guideline Amendments Miniseries covers key amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, effective November 1, 2025. Part four of the series covers the amendment to drug offenses, including the revisions to mitigating role cap provisions and the expansion of circumstances in which drug trafficking offenses where a mitigating role adjustment is generally warranted. It also reviews changes to the two-level enhancement at §2D1.1(b)(13)(B) for offenses involving the misrepresentation of fentanyl.
Miniseries:
- Part 1 – Supervised Release
- Part 2 – Simplification
- Part 3 – Firearms Offenses
- Part 4 – Drug Offenses
- Part 5 – Circuit Conflicts
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