United States v. Reverol-Rivera, No. 12-1991 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant and an accomplice piloted a boat used to import cocaine. Both Defendant and his accomplice pled guilty to importing cocaine to the United States. The district court sentenced Defendant to 135 months’ imprisonment and his accomplice to sixty-three months’ imprisonment. Defendant appealed, challenging the procedural and substantive reasonableness of his sentence. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) the district court adequately considered Defendant’s arguments in favor of a lower sentence; and (2) given that the record supported the district court’s determination that Defendant and the accomplice were not equally culpable, the district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that the 135-month sentence was justified by Defendant’s individual level of culpability.
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