United States v. Terronez, No. 18-3169 (7th Cir. 2019)
Annotate this CaseTerronez pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. The district court announced a within‐Guidelines sentence of 110 months’ imprisonment. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting arguments that the court committed procedural error by not considering his request for a variance from the Guidelines range given that the base offense level overrepresented the seriousness of his offense. The court noted that Terronez had two Illinois drug trafficking convictions, each of which subjected him to over a year in prison, plus two drug possession convictions, an aggravated assault conviction, and two driving-on-a-suspended-license convictions, and that the firearm had an “obliterated serial number.” Given that the court imposed a within‐Guidelines sentence, its explanation as to why it did not believe the sentence overstated the seriousness of Terronez’s felon‐in‐possession conviction is sufficient.
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