Legal Opinion
United States v. Cortez-Vergara
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 17, 2017No. 16-1342PPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Chief Judge.
After pleading guilty to maritime drug •and conspiracy offenses, Freddy Cortez-Vergara was sentenced to a bottom-of-the-range guidelines sentence of 108 months’ incarceration. He now challenges his sentence on the ground that the sentencing court erred by not granting him a minor role adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2(b). Finding Cortez’s argument ’ meritless, we affirm.
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Because Cortez pled guilty, we draw the facts from the change-of-plea and sentencing hearing transcripts and the Presentence Investigation Report’s (“PSR”) uncontested portions. See United States v.…
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