United States v. Jabari Johnson

On July 7, 2014, Jabari Johnson pled guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. At sentencing, Johnson did not object to the calculation of his Guidelines sentencing range, but requested a downward variance on the basis that his criminal history category overstated the severity of his criminal record. The district court 1 denied Johnson’s request for a variance, and imposed a within-Guidelines sentence of 27 months’ imprisonment. Johnson now appeals, 2 asserting that the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence. We affirm.

We review the substantive…