United States Second Circuit

Sentence based on guilty plea to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and conspiring to distribute over five hundred grams of cocaine is affirmed over claims that the district court erred by: 1) concluding that the sentence recommended by the U.S.S.G. accounted for the factors under 18 U.S.C. section 3553(a); and 2) failing to state adequately its reasons for imposing the chosen sentence, as required by section 3553(c).

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/21/2007
• Published 09/21/2007

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  WALKER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Molly Corbett, Assistant Federal Public Defender (Alexander Bunin, Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of New York, George E. Baird, Assistant Federal Public Defender, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., Brenda K. Sannes, Assistant United States Attorney (Glenn T. Suddaby, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Richard S. Hartunian, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), Syracuse, NY, for Appellee.