United States v. Vazquez, No. 15-1828 (1st Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CasePursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking offense (Count 1) and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances (Count 5). The district court sentenced Defendant to eighty-four months’ imprisonment for Count 1 and to forty-one months for Count 5. The sentences were to be served consecutively, for a total of 125 months’ imprisonment. Defendant appealed, arguing that his sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable. The First Circuit affirmed Defendant’s sentence, holding that the sentence “reside[d] within the expansive universe of reasonable sentences.”
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