United States v. Demers, No. 15-2205 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance (oxycodone) and distribution of that controlled substance. The district court imposed a bottom-of-the-range sentence of a fifty-seven-month term of immurement for each count, to be served concurrently. Defendant appealed, arguing that the sentencing court made an erroneous drug-quantity determination and that the sentence was substantively unreasonable. The First Circuit affirmed Defendant’s sentence, holding (1) the sentencing court’s drug-quantity calculation was not in error; and (2) Appellant’s challenge to the substantive reasonableness of his sentence was unavailing.
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