United States v. Casteneda

SUMMARY ORDER

Defendant Jose Casteneda stands convicted, based on his guilty plea, to one substantive and one conspiratorial count of heroin trafficking. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 812, 841, 846. He now appeals from that part of his judgment of conviction sentencing him to 135 months’ incarceration. Casteneda asserts that this incarceratory term is unreasonable because the district court (1) miscalculated his Sentencing Guidelines range and, (2) unreasonably failed to depart from his Criminal History category.

*17Co-defendant Jose Rolando Contreras stands convicted, based on his guilty plea, to two…