United States v. Hernandez-Ramos

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

Heissan Hernández-Ramos ("Hernández") appeals to contest his sixty-month prison sentence following a guilty plea entered in district court to two offenses:

*214 being a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1), and unlawfully possessing a machine gun, id. § 922(o).

On September 1, 2016, Puerto Rico police officers were patrolling in the vicinity of the Luis Llorens-Torres Public Housing Project in San Juan. As the officers approached a group gathered near a known drug distribution point, one man, Hernández, pulled a firearm from his waist and fled, throwing…