United States v. Vazquez-Martinez, No. 14-1648 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a machine gun. The presentence report calculated Defendant’s Guidelines range as twenty-seven to thirty-three months’ imprisonment. After a sentencing hearing, the district court sentenced Defendant to sixty months’ imprisonment. Defendant appealed, arguing that his sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that, given the nature of Defendant’s offense in combination with his personal characteristics and his near-immediate recidivism for a similar offense, Defendant’s sixty-month sentence was within the range of reasonable sentences the district court could impose.
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