U.S. v. MADERA-ORTIZ

No. 10-1474.

637 F.3d 26 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Walter J. MADERA-ORTIZ, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 25, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan D. Campbell on brief for appellant.

Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, Nelson Pérez-Sosa , Chief, Appellate Division, and George A. Massucco-LaTaif , Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

After defendant-appellant Walter J. Madera-Ortiz pleaded guilty to transferring obscene materials to a minor, see 18 U.S.C. § 1470, the district court sentenced him to 21 months in prison. The appellant challenges his sentence as substantively unreasonable. We affirm.

As this sentencing appeal was preceded by a guilty plea, we draw the background facts from the change-of-plea colloquy, the transcript of the disposition hearing...

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