United States v. Carrasquillo, No. 19-2151 (1st Cir. 2021)
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The First Circuit vacated Defendant's forty-eight-month prison sentence that the district court imposed after Defendant entered a guilty plea to one count of firearm possession, holding that resentencing was required in this case.
The district court imposed a variant sentence of forty-eight months - eighteen months more than the top of the guidelines sentencing range and twice the length of the sentence that both parties recommended. On appeal, Defendant challenged both the procedural and substantive reasonableness of his sentence. The First Circuit vacated the sentence and remanded for resentencing, holding that the district court committed plain procedural error by imposing an upward variance without adequate explanation.
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