Legal Opinion
United States v. Lozada-Aponte
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 24, 2012No. 10-2487PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAWKINS, Circuit Judge.
Joseph Lozada-Aponte (“Lozada”) appeals the 46-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) in connection with his shipping an assault rifle and pistol from Florida to Puerto Rico. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and, applying this court’s deferential abuse-of-diseretion standard of review, 1 affirm.
I. Upward Departure for Underrepresentation of Criminal History
In calculating the appropriate guideline sentencing range, the district court applied a two-category…
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