United States v. Arias-Mercedes, No. 17-1229 (1st Cir. 2018)
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After addressing how a district court should apply the Sentencing Commission’s revised commentary regarding mitigating role adjustments the First Circuit affirmed Defendant’s sentence to eighty-seven months of imprisonment, holding that Defendant’s sentence was neither procedurally flawed nor substantively unreasonable.
Defendant pled guilty to several drug-related offenses. After determining that Defendant was not entitled to a minor participant reduction, the district court imposed concurrent eighty-seven terms of confinement on all four counts of conviction. On appeal, Defendant argued that the district court erred in refusing to grant him a minor participant reduction. See U.S.S.G. 3B1.2. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) Defendant’s claim of legal error in the court’s application of section 3B1.2 was without merit, and the district court supportably found that Defendant was not entitled to the minor participant reduction; and (2) the challenged sentence was substantively reasonable.
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