United States v. Santiago-Lozada, No. 21-1661 (1st Cir. 2023)
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The First Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court sentencing Defendant to twenty-four months above the mandatory minimum of sixty months in an 18 U.S.C. 924(c) count arising from a carjacking, holding that the sentence was neither procedurally nor substantively unreasonable.
Defendant entered into a plea agreement with the government in which he pled guilty to two carjackings and the offense of using and carrying a firearm in relation to the carjacking. The parties recommended a sentence of 123 months' imprisonment. The district court sentenced Defendant to a total of 162 months. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) Defendant's procedural reasonableness claim failed; and (2) Defendant's sentence was substantively reasonable, and therefore, the district court did not abuse its discretion.
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