Legal Opinion

United States v. Snyder

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided February 13, 1998No. 97-1233PublishedCited by 68 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In this single-issue sentencing appeal, the government implores us to set aside defendant-appellee Erie Gray Snyder’s sentence. The district court predicated that sentence on a disparity between the sentence mandated for the offense of conviction by the federal sentencing guidelines and the sentence Snyder likely would have received had state authorities prosecuted him. See United States v. Snyder, 954 F.Supp. 19, 22 (D.Mass.1997) (memorandum explicating reasons for sentence). We thus confront a question of novel impression in this circuit: Is federal/state sentencing…

2Cases cited17 opinions

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  3. United States v. SittonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1992
  4. United States v. Jorge Armando Aguilar-PenaCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1989
  5. United States v. Ronald Haynes, and Jahmal Rose, Willie Goldwire, Ronald Duran, and Natasha WhiteCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1993

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3Cited by68 opinions

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