Legal Opinion
United States v. Rivera-Moreno
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 19, 2010No. 08-1961PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Ricardo Rivera-Moreno was tried as a street seller and “runner” 1 in a vast, four-year drug-trafficking conspiracy, Las Avispas Dos, operating in Guayama, Puerto Rico. On the sixth day of trial, he pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. The district court sentenced Appellant to 365 months in prison, plus a fifteen-year term of supervised release. On appeal, Appellant contends that the sentencing court inappropriately attributed to him the full weight of the conspiracy’s drug amounts and did not make individualized findings…
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