United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence on drug charges with sentencing enhancement for possession of a dangerous weapon, a gun, during and in the course of the crime of conviction are affirmed, where: 1) the district court's rejection of the 168-month sentencing recommendation, a material term of the plea agreement, vitiated the waiver-of-appeal provision in its entirety; but 2) the dangerous weapon enhancement was adequately grounded in the record; and 3) the sentencing court considered the relevant sentencing factors and adequately explained the sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2013
• Published 05/24/2013

Judges

• SELYA

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel