Legal Opinion
United States v. Soto-Soto
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 1, 2017No. 16-1444PPublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Josué Soto-Soto appeals from a two-year sentence imposed following the revocation of a term of supervised release. He complains that the district court erred both in stating that it had granted him “two previous opportunities” to reform his ways and in fashioning a substantively unreasonable sentence. Finding his plaints unpersuasive, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The relevant facts are largely uncontested. On October 18, 2013, the appellant entered a guilty plea to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2).…
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