United States v. Vargas-Garcia, No. 14-1335 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pleaded guilty to possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. The parties jointly agreed to recommend a sentence of eighty-four months’ imprisonment. The district court proceeded to impose a ninety-month term of immurement to run consecutively to any other sentence then being served. Defendant appealed, arguing that the sentence lacked adequate explanation and that it was substantively unreasonable. The First Circuit affirmed the sentence, holding (1) no clear or obvious “lack of explanation” error occurred in this case; and (2) Defendant’s sentence was substantively reasonable.
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