United States v. Laureano-Perez, No. 13-2224 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendants - Juan Laureano-Perez, Jeffrey Cummings-Avila (Cummings), and Christopher Laureano-Perez (Christopher) - were convicted of various narcotics possession, conspiracy, and firearm charges arising out of their participation in an illicit drug organization. Each defendant appealed his conviction, and Cummings and Christopher challenged their sentences. The First Circuit affirmed all of the convictions and Cummings’s sentence but vacated Christopher’s sentence and remanded for resentencing, holding (1) all of Defendants’ claims of error during the pretrial and trial phases of their proceedings were without merit except for one, and as to that allegation, any error was harmless; (2) Cummings’s sentence was procedurally sound; and (3) the district court erred in failing to calculate the applicable guidelines sentencing range for one of the two counts for which Christopher was convicted, instead choosing to group the two counts together.
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