United States Second Circuit

51-month sentence, following guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm, is affirmed over claims that: 1) the district court erred in denying two requests for downward departures under the U.S.S.G.; and 2) the sentence ultimately imposed was unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/26/2006
• Published 09/27/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before WINTER, CABRANES, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Frank J. Riccio (Frank J. Riccio II, on the brief), Law Offices of Frank J. Riccio LLP, Bridgeport, CT, for defendant-appellant., James I. Glasser, Counsel to the United States Attorney (Kevin J. O'Connor, United States Attorney, William J. Nardini, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT, for appellee.