United States v. Bermudez-Melendez, No. 14-2209 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CasePursuant to a plea agreement, Appellant pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. The agreement memorialized a joint sentencing recommendation of seventy-two months’ incarceration. At sentencing, the parties requested that the district court impose the agreed sentence. The court instead sentenced Appellant to the upwardly variant term of incarceration of ninety months. On appeal, Appellant challenged his sentence, arguing both procedural and substantive error. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that Appellant’s sentence was neither procedurally nor substantively unreasonable.
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