United States Second Circuit

Sentence based on guilty plea to conspiring to deal in and transport firearms is vacated where the district court's reliance on community-specific characteristics, such as population density, to impose a non-Guidelines sentence constituted legal error and rendered defendant's sentence unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2007
• Published 06/06/2007

Judges

• Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, CARDAMONE,CALABRESI, CABRANES, STRAUB,POOLER, SACK, SOTOMAYOR, KATZMANN, B.D. PARKER, RAGGI, WESLEY, HALL, and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leonard Koerner & Deborah A. Brenner, for Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, N.Y., for Amicus Curiae the City of New York.


• For Appellees:
  
• Taryn A. Merkl, Assistant United States Attorney (David C. James, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), for Benton J. Campbell, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N.Y., for Appellee., Jeffrey Rabin, Brooklyn, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant Gerard Cavera.