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United States v. Ignasio Maldenaldo Sanchez, United States of America v. Santiago Gilberto Sanchez

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Overruled in part
Court
Eleventh Circuit
Citation
269 F.3d 1250
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
55 of 55
Citing cases (total)
55
Treatment dates
2013
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. All 55 flagged citations to United States v. Sanchez have been read; one of its holdings has since been displaced. Alleyne v. United States (2013) held that facts increasing a mandatory minimum are elements for the jury, which displaced the en banc court's holding that a judge could find them.
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Alleyne does not name Sanchez; later Eleventh Circuit opinions record the change, among them United States v. Lebarron (2026) ("abrogated in part on other grounds by Alleyne"). Sanchez's other holdings continue to be applied, and none of the 55 citing opinions treats it adversely on its own.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

55 later cases cite United States v. Ignasio Maldenaldo Sanchez, United States of America v. Santiago Gilberto Sanchez; 55 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Supreme Court displaced Sanchez's holding that a judge may find the facts that trigger a mandatory minimum sentence: those facts are elements a jury must find beyond a reasonable doubt.

    Alleyne v. United States · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Facts that increase the mandatory minimum sentence are therefore elements and must be submitted to the jury and found beyond a reasonable doubt.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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