United States Court of Appeals
                        For the First Circuit


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 

 and one count of distribution of heroin in