No. 20-1156

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Appellee,

v.

MINERVA RUIZ,

Defendant, Appellant.

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

[Hon. Patti B. Saris, U.S. District Judge]

Before

Lynch and Kayatta, Circuit Judges, and Woodcock, District Judge.

Emmett E. Robinson and Robinson Law Firm, LLC, on brief for appellant. Lauren A. Graber, Assistant United States Attorney, and Andrew E. Lelling, United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.

June 4, 2021

 Of the District of Maine, sitting by designation. WOODCOCK, District Judge. On July 24, 2019, a jury convicted Minerva Ruiz of one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and one count of distribution of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). On January 21, 2020, the district court imposed a downward variant