Legal Opinion
United States v. Cox
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 20, 2017No. 14-1033PPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Between 2006 and 2008, Sirewl Cox — a real estate developer, agent, and broker— orchestrated a mortgage fraud scheme in Massachusetts. After his scheme was exposed, Cox was charged with multiple counts of bank and wire fraud and money laundering. A jury subsequently found Cox guilty on some of the charged counts, and he was sentenced to a below-guidelines term of 150 months of imprisonment.
Cox now appeals his sentence on both procedural and substantive grounds. Specifically, he raises a flurry of objections related to the district court’s use of uncharged and acquitted…
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