United States First Circuit

Defendant's sentence of 135-months' imprisonment after being convicted of participating in a conspiracy to distribute narcotics is affirmed where: 1) trial court's reliance on witness' testimony was not unreasonable; 2) district court did not err in attributing the full five kilograms of cocaine to defendant in calculating the base offense level of 32; 3) district court did not err in denying defendant's request for a two-level reduction in his offense level for acceptance of responsibility.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/25/2009
• Published 11/25/2009

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• María H. Sandoval, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas F. Klumper, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, and Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.