Legal Opinion
United States v. Nygren
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 6, 2019No. 18-1548PPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This sentencing appeal poses a question of first impression in this circuit: may feigned incompetency comprise the basis for an obstruction-of-justice enhancement and, thus, support an upward offense-level adjustment under USSG § 3C1.1 ? We answer this question in the affirmative, reject the defendant's other assignments of error, and affirm his sentence.
I. BACKGROUND
We start by rehearsing the relevant facts and travel of the case. During the summer of 2014, defendant-appellant Steven Nygren was hired as the chief financial officer of Brooklin Boat Yard (the Boatyard), a…
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