Legal Opinion
United States v. Juan Castro-Alvarado
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 16, 2014No. 13-3765PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Juan Castro-Alvarado 1 was convicted of one count of illegal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and 6 U.S.C. § 202(4). He pleaded guilty and the district court sentenced him to 77 months’ imprisonment — a term at the bottom end of the advisory Guidelines. On appeal he raises two challenges to his sentence. First, he argues that the district court committed procedural error by not expressly addressing his “fast-track disparity” argument at sentencing. Second, he argues that his sentence was substantively unreasonable in light of his proffered mitigation factors —…
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