United States First Circuit

District court's imposition of a 42-month, below-guidelines sentence on a defendant for possessing and distributing oxycodone is affirmed as defendant's arguments that the marijuana equivalent for oxycodone is irrationally high and that the district court abused its discretion in declining to impose a lighter sentence are rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/01/2010
• Published 03/01/2010

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert L. Ullmann, Alexa H. O'Keefe, and Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer Hay Zacks, Assistant United States Attorney, and Carmen M. Ortiz, United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.