United States v. Zapata-Vazquez, No. 13-2170 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseAppellant pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The district court imposed an above-Guidelines prison sentence of seventy-two months because of the seriousness of the firearm offense in a community such as Appellant’s where such crimes are pervasive and because Appellant was on probation at the time of the offense. Appellant appealed, challenging the reasonableness of his variant sentence. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) there was no basis for any of Appellant’s claims of procedural error; and (2) the sentence was substantively reasonable.
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