--- title: "United States v. Portillo" citation: "363 F.3d 1161 (11th Cir. 2004)" authority_id: "AUTH-CA11-PORTILLO-363-F3D-1161" authority_type: "case" jurisdiction: "federal_eleventh_circuit" precedential_status: "binding_in_ca11" url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-CA11-PORTILLO-363-F3D-1161/" legal_review: "2026-10-30" license: "CC BY 4.0" --- # United States v. Portillo ## Holding or rule used - Rule 36 may not be used to make a substantive alteration to a criminal sentence, but a court may correct clerical errors in the written judgment at any time, for example to conform it to the oral sentence; a minor, mechanical correction that does not make the sentence more onerous is clerical (363 F.3d at 1164–65). ## Material limitation Pinpoints checked against CourtListener star pagination. Comprehensive commercial citator not run. ## Source 363 F.3d 1161 (11th Cir. 2004): ## Used in - [Rules 35 and 36 — Sentence Correction, Assistance, Record Error, and Appeals](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/70-sentence-modification/rules-35-36-and-modification-appeals.md)