Legal Opinion
United States v. Santiago-Burgos
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 21, 2014No. 12-1897PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
Efrain Santiago-Burgos appeals the ninety-seven month prison sentence imposed by the district court after he pled guilty to a drug conspiracy charge. Santiago argues that the district court made a prejudicial Sentencing Guideline calculation error and improperly imposed his sentence consecutive to one he received as a result of a conviction tangentially related to the relevant drug conspiracy. The government concedes the Guideline miscalculation point but disputes the consecutive sentence error. It also argues that any error is nevertheless for naught because Santiago’s…
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