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United States v. Fuentes-Echevarria

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided May 1, 2017No. 16-1176PPublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HOWARD, Chief Judge.

Raymond Fuentes-Echevarria challenges the procedural reasonableness of a forty-eight-month sentence imposed following his guilty plea for illegal possession of a machine gun. He also brings an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. After careful consideration, we affirm his sentence and dismiss his ineffective assistance claim without prejudice.

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On September 15, 2014, police officers stopped Fuentes, who was driving his Honda Accord in reverse in the middle of a street, near a known drug trafficking point in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1 While one officer issued a ticket to…

2Cases cited15 opinions

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