United States First Circuit

Defendant's sentence for taking a motor vehicle by force, violence, and intimidation with the intent to cause death or serious bodily harm is affirmed, where: 1) the mere mention of rehabilitative needs, without any indication that those needs influenced the length of the sentence imposed is not error; and 2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing an upward variance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/05/2014
• Published 08/05/2014

Judges

• SELYA

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel