Legal Opinion

United States v. Madera-Ortiz

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided February 25, 2011No. 10-1474PublishedCited by 69 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

After defendant-appellant Walter J. Madera-Ortiz pleaded guilty to transferring obscene materials to a minor, see 18 U.S.C. § 1470, the district court sentenced him to 21 months in prison. The appellant challenges his sentence as substantively unreasonable. We affirm.

As this sentencing appeal was preceded by a guilty plea, we draw the background facts from the change-of-plea colloquy, the transcript of the disposition hearing, and the uncontested portions of the presentence investigation report (PSI Report). United States v. Carrasco-de- Jesús, 589 F.3d 22, 24 (1st…

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