United States v. Velez-Soto, No. 13-1885 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseIn federal court, Appellant entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in a multi-defendant drug conspiracy case. Pending sentencing in his federal case, Appellant pled guilty to three state law murder and weapons violations. Appellant was sentenced to 204 months’ imprisonment in state court. The federal district court subsequently sentenced Appellant to 280 months’ imprisonment, to be served concurrently with the 204-month sentence imposed in his state criminal case. Appellant appealed, arguing that the district court’s sentence was procedurally unsound and substantively unreasonable. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that the sentence was procedurally sound and substantively reasonable.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on October 23, 2015.
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