United States v. Munoz-Fontanez, No. 18-2236 (1st Cir. 2023)
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The First Circuit vacated the sentence imposed upon Defendant after he pleaded guilty, pursuant to a plea agreement, to possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, holding that there was procedural error in the proceedings below.
In the plea agreement at issue the parties agreed to recommend a combined sentence between ninety-six and 120 months in prison. The aggregated Guideline Sentencing Range for the crimes was sixty to sixty-two months' imprisonment. The district court, however, varied upwards to impose a sentence of 144 months. The First Circuit vacated the upwardly variant sentence, holding that because the district court offered no explicit rationale tying the instant facts to the statutory sentencing goals, the court committed plain error.
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