United States v. Paulino-Guzman, No. 14-1859 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm. The Presentence Investigation Report calculated the guidelines sentencing range as forty-one to fifty-one months. After a sentencing hearing, the district court imposed a variant sentence and sentenced Defendant to sixty months’ imprisonment. Defendant appealed his sentence on the grounds that it was substantively unreasonable. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in relying in part on the sentence’s supposed deterrent effect to justify an upward variance from the recommended sentencing range.
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