US v. Walker, No. 22-1929 (1st Cir. 2023)
Annotate this CaseShaun Walker appealed his 36-month sentence for participating in a failed Hobbs Act conspiracy to rob a home business. Walker raised four objections to his sentence, including challenges to enhancements for economic loss and possession of dangerous weapons and denials of reductions for incomplete conspiracy and mitigating role. The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit found no error in the enhancements for economic loss and dangerous weapon possession, as well as the denial of incomplete conspiracy reduction. However, the Court vacated and remanded for resentencing on the issue of the mitigating role reduction. The Court was unable to affirm the district court's denial of the reduction due to a lack of explanation, and was unable to conclude that any error in the district court's application of the reduction was harmless. Therefore, the case was remanded for the district court to reevaluate Walker's role in the conspiracy.
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