Legal Opinion
United States v. Almenas
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 12, 2009No. 06-2513PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
After pleading guilty to selling crack cocaine, Miguel Almenas was sentenced— pursuant to a downward departure — to 192 months’ imprisonment, 43 months below the bottom of the guideline sentencing range (“GSR”). Almenas appeals his sentence. He argues primarily that the district court erroneously relied on his prior conviction for resisting arrest when sentencing him as a career offender. He also challenges both the reasonableness of his sentence and the court’s use of prior convictions that he alleges had not been sufficiently proven. We reject all of Almenas’s…
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