U.S. v. LOZADA-APONTE

No. 10-2487.

689 F.3d 791 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Joseph LOZADA-APONTE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 24, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hector L. Ramos-Vega , Assistant Federal Public Defender, with whom Hector E. Guzman, Jr. , Federal Public Defender, was on brief for Appellant.

Brian K. Kidd , Assistant United States Attorney. Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez , United States Attorney, Nelson Pérez-Sosa , Chief, Appellate Section, United States Attorney's Office, and Luke Cass , Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for Appellee.

Before BOUDIN, HAWKINS, and DYK, Circuit Judges.


HAWKINS, Circuit Judge.

Joseph Lozada-Aponte ("Lozada") appeals the 46-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) in connection with his shipping an assault rifle and pistol from Florida to Puerto Rico. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and, applying this court's deferential abuse-of-discretion standard of...

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