United States v. Alexei Pena

A jury found Alexei Pena guilty of conspiring to distribute and distributing cocaine, and he was sentenced to 41 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release. After Pena began serving his supervised release, the probation office petitioned for revocation, alleging that Pena had violated his release conditions. At the revocation hearing, the district court 1 revoked supervised release and imposed a new sentence of 18 months in prison. Pena appeals, arguing that the district court abused its discretion by sentencing him without considering the factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as required…