United States v. Flores-Nater, No. 21-1856 (1st Cir. 2023)
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The First Circuit vacated the judgment of the sentencing court sentencing Defendant to an upwardly variant thirty-year sentence for his conviction for discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, holding that remand was required in this case.
After a hearing, the district court imposed a thirty-year incarcerate sentence reflecting a twenty-year upward variance for Defendant's conviction. Defendant appealed, challenging his sentence as substantively unreasonable. The First Circuit vacated the judgment below, holding that the district court failed to articulate a plausible sentencing rationale, requiring that Defendant's sentence be vacated and this case remanded for resentencing.
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