Legal Opinion
United States v. Bermúdez-Meléndez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 28, 2016No. 14-2209PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In this sentencing appeal, defendant-appellant Edgardo L. Bermúdez-Meléndez mounts a multifaceted challenge to his upwardly variant sentence for a firearms offense. After careful consideration, we affirm.
I
Inasmuch as this appeal trails in the wake of a guilty plea, we draw the facts from the non-binding plea agreement (the Agreement), the change-of-plea colloquy, the undisputed portions of the presentence investigation report (PSI Report), and the transcript of the disposition hearing. See United States v. Almonte-Nuñez, 771 F.3d 84, 86 (1st Cir. 2014). On November 27,…
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