Legal Opinion
United States v. Peter Alden Drown, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 14, 1991No. 91-1118PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This is another in the long line of appeals which have ensued as courts and litigants struggle to master the intricacies of the federal sentencing guidelines. In this instance, defendant-appellant Peter Alden Drown, Jr., was sentenced to a 78-month term of imprisonment (a sentence which came within, but was at the bottom end of, the applicable guideline sentencing range). Drown does not contest the district court’s interim calculations or its determination of the appropriate sentencing range. Rather, in this appeal, he disputes only the court’s refusal to depart downward…
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