United States v. Rivera-Gonzalez, No. 13-1620 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute various controlled offenses, possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking offense. The district court sentenced Defendant to an eighty-four-month sentence on the firearms possession count, to run consecutively to the other sentences. Defendant appealed, challenging the reasonableness of the sentence for the gun charge. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that the sentence was procedurally and substantively reasonable and “sufficient, but not greater than necessary” to further the legitimate goals of sentencing.
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