United States v. Rodriguez-Cruz, No. 20-1072 (1st Cir. 2021)
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The First Circuit summarily affirmed Appellant's sentence for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, holding that the forty-eight-month sentence represented a defensible result.
On appeal, Defendant argued that the upwardly variant sentence was substantively unreasonable because the district court imposed a sentence based on an incorrect statement of a material fact concerning Defendant's criminal history. The district court in this case, however, corrected its misstatement before imposing the sentence. The First Circuit summarily affirmed the sentence, holding that where the district court's brief mischaracterization of Defendant's prior offense was promptly corrected, the district court's sentencing rationale was plausible.
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