The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there is no rational basis to make safety valve relief unavailable to offenders who commit wholly foreign drug offenses, while making it available to those who commit the same offense within the territorial United States. Furthermore, the Supreme Court should also grant certiorari because there exists a conflict between the D.C. Circuit and and the Ninth and Eleventh Circuit Court of appeals.

Whether the exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection