United States v. Román-Díaz

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Elvin Román-Díaz asserts that the sentencing court erred in “departing” from one criminal history category (CHC) to another without notice or an opportunity to be heard. He further asserts that the sentencing court erred in ordering his federal sentence to run consecutive to an undischarged state sentence. Finding no departure and no abuse of discretion in the imposition of the challenged consecutive sentence, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

A summary of pertinent events suffices to lend perspective. We draw the facts from the plea agreement (the Agreement),…