Legal Opinion
United States v. Velez-Luciano
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 25, 2016No. 14-1738PPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOROKIN, District Judge.
After pleading guilty to one count of possession of child pornography, appellant Nelson Vélezr-Lueiano (‘Vélez-Luciano”) received a sentence of ten years in prison followed by fifteen years of supervised release. The terms of his supervised release included multiple conditions, some of which he challenges in this appeal. Because Vé-lez-Luciano’s plea agreement included an applicable waiver of appeal provision, a heightened standard of review applies. With one exception, Vélez-Luciano cannot satisfy this standard for the challenged conditions. We thus vacate that one…
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