Legal Opinion
United States v. Carrasco-De-Jesus
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 11, 2009No. 08-2463PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Oneida Carrasco-de-Jesús, also known as Brenda Rios-González, attacks her sentence as both proeedurally flawed and substantively unreasonable. Concluding, as we do, that her attack lacks force, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico charged the appellant with participation in a conspiracy to issue and use counterfeit checks. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 513. After some preliminary skirmishing, not relevant here, the appellant pleaded guilty pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement (the Agreement). We draw the background…
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