Legal Opinion
United States v. Paulino-Guzman
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 9, 2015No. 14-1859PPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
Following his guilty plea to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, Omar Paulino-Guzman (“Guzman”) appeals his 60-month sentence on the grounds that it is substantively unreasonable. After careful review of the record, we find that the district court did not abuse its discretion in relying in part on the sentence’s supposed deterrent effect to justify an upward variance from a recommended sentencing range of 41-51 months.
I. Background 1
In the early morning of November 28, 2013, the Puerto Rico Police Department was alerted that a gas station’s security alarm had…
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