United States First Circuit

Sentence for illegal reentry after deportation is affirmed over claims that: 1) the district court declined to account for "unwarranted" sentence disparities as required by 18 U.S.C. section 3553(a)(6); 2) fast-track sentencing programs violate defendant's constitutional right to equal protection; and 3) the district court erred in treating his prior convictions as sentencing factors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/19/2007
• Published 11/19/2007

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and JOSÉ A. FUSTÉ, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Catherine K. Byrne for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cynthia A. Young, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.