Legal Opinion
United States v. Rivera
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 14, 1999No. 320, Docket No. 97-1223PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-appellant Nelson Estremera appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Dorsey, /.), convicting him, following a plea of guilty, of one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846. Estremera argues that when calculating his sentence, the district court erred by (i) failing to depart downward from the Sentencing Guidelines range by reason of Es-tremera’s “violent and tumultuous childhood”; and (ii) departing upward as to the term of supervised release as a hedge…
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3Cited by39 opinions
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