United States v. Quinones-Melendez, No. 14-1369 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty, in separate plea agreements, to unlawfully possessing a machine gun and aiding and abetting another individual in the unlawful possession of automatic firearms. The guidelines ranges for each of Defendant’s offenses was 33-41 months and 41-51 months, respectively. The district court imposed a higher sentence of 60 months for each offense and decided that the sentences would run consecutively for a total sentence of 120 months in prison. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) the prosecution did not breach the plea agreements; and (2) the sentence imposed by the district court was neither procedurally nor substantively unreasonable.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on July 20, 2015.
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