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United States v. Velez-Soto

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided October 14, 2015No. 13-1885PPublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a sentence following Francisco J. Vélez-Soto’s guilty plea in a multi-defendant drug conspiracy case. While on bail pending sentencing in his federal case, appellant pled guilty to three state law crimes: second degree murder and two weapons law violations. Appellant contends that the district court’s decision to impose a 280-month federal sentence to run concurrently with his state sentence was procedurally unsound and substantively unreasonable. Finding the sentence proper in all respects, we affirm.

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A. Factual Background

Given that this appeal…

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