Legal Opinion
United States v. Pérez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 22, 2016No. 15-1234PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This sentencing appeal embodies four discrete claims of error. Having scrutinized these claims in light of the record as a whole, we affirm the appellant’s sentence.
I. BACKGROUND
The critical facts are largely uncontested. Defendant-appellant Englis Pérez, a Dominican national, journeyed to Venezuela in early 2014 to undertake a cocaine-smuggling venture. Shortly after midnight on March 4, 2014, federal authorities intercepted a 30-foot speedboat — operating without lights, powered by two outsized outboard engines, and equipped with 23 extra fuel tanks — that had left port…
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