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United States v. Arias-Mercedes

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided August 16, 2018No. 17-1229PPublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Ynocencio Arias-Mercedes challenges his 87-month incarcerative sentence as procedurally flawed and substantively unreasonable. Among other things, his appeal poses questions about how a district court should apply the Sentencing Commission's revised commentary regarding mitigating role adjustments. See USSG App. C, Amend. 794.

After careful consideration of these questions and the other issues raised on appeal, we affirm the challenged sentence.

I. BACKGROUND

This appeal follows a guilty plea and, thus, we draw the facts from the plea colloquy, the…

2Cases cited27 opinions

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