United States v. Jiamez-Dolores, No. 14-1840 (2d Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseDefendants Jiamez-Dolores and Degante-Galeno were convicted of crimes related to their involvement in a prostitution ring, which involved four separate brothels and a delivery service by which women would be driven directly to customers' residences. The court concluded that Degante-Galeno’s 60 month sentence was substantively reasonable where the district court considered the 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) factors. In addition to considering his role in the offense, the district court based the sentence on his complicity in the coercion applied to the victims - some of whom were forced into prostitution, the duration of his participation in the conspiracy, and his failure to acknowledge fully the seriousness of the offense. The court also concluded that Jiamez-Dolores's 60 month sentence was procedurally and substantively reasonable. In this case, the record reflects the district court’s thorough, individualized consideration of the section 3553(a) factors and its justifications for imposing an upward variance in Jiamez-Dolores’s case. The court considered defendants' remaining arguments and found them to be without merit. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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