United States First Circuit

In a sentencing challenge brought by a defendant convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, the district court's 10-year sentence is affirmed, where: 1) the district court's application of enhancements under the sentencing guidelines and its inclusion of criminal history points was procedurally reasonable; and 2) the sentence, although the maximum possible, was substantively reasonable, as the district court articulated a plausible sentencing rationale and imposed a sentence within the range of reasonable outcomes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/03/2012
• Published 02/03/2012

Judges

• Selya

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert C. Andrews, Thomas E. Delahanty II