United States Second Circuit

Sentence based on guilty plea to conspiring to deal in and transport firearms is vacated in part as the district court's reliance on the simple fact of population density to impose a non-Guidelines sentence constituted legal error and rendered defendant's sentence unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/11/2007
• Published 10/11/2007

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.