Legal Opinion

United States v. Arroyo-Maldonado

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided July 1, 2015No. 13-2137PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns a challenge to the sentence imposed on José Juan Arroyo-Maldonado (“Arroyo-Maldonado”) for fraud. Arroyo-Maldonado challenges the reasonableness of his above Guidelines sentence of one hundred and twenty months of imprisonment. After careful consideration, we affirm his sentence.

I. Background

Because Arroyo-Maldonado pleaded guilty, our discussion of the facts is drawn from the change-of-plea colloquy, the Pre-Sentence Investigation Report (“PSR”)’, and the transcript of the sentencing hearing. See United States v. Cintrón-Echautegui, 604 F.3d 1, 2…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Gall v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  2. Kimbrough v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  3. Tapia v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
  4. United States v. DuarteCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2001
  5. United States v. MartinCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2008

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3Cited by25 opinions

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  3. United States v. Rodriguez-ReyesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2019
  4. United States v. González-RodríguezCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2017
  5. United States v. Cruz-VázquezCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2016

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