Legal Opinion
United States v. Romero
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 12, 2018No. 17-1706PPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
OVERVIEW
Gadiel Romero pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and got a 276-month prison sentence, a below-guidelines sentence-his guidelines range was 360 months to life. Ably represented on appeal by new counsel, Romero principally claims that his incarcerative term is both procedurally flawed and substantively unreasonable. Concluding, as we do, that his attacks miss the mark, we affirm .
HOW THE CASE GOT HERE
Because this appeal follows a guilty plea, we take the facts from the undisputed parts of the probation office's presentence report ("PSR") and the…
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