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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has to Cotto-Negron argued at sentencing<\/a> that he should not receive a two-level bodily injury enhancement under U.S.S.G. 2B3.1(b)(3)(A) because his co-defendant, the day before, was not sentenced with the enhancement and the facts of their cases were identical. This enhancement applies when \u201cany victim sustained bodily injury\u201d during the course of a robbery. The district court stated at Cotton-Negron\u2019s sentencing that the facts of his case were different from that of his co-defendants. On appeal, the First Circuit reversed on procedural reasonableness grounds. United States v. Cotto-Negron<\/a>, No. 14-1670 (1st Cir. 2017).<\/p>\n

The First Circuit held that it could not find any \u201cbasis in the record for the court’s conclusion that Cotton-Negron played a role in the Kmart robbery different from that of\u201d his co-defendants. In so holding, the court noted that the factual summaries from each of the co-defendant\u2019s cases were the same as Cotton-Negron\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The Government attempted to counter Cotton-Negron\u2019s argument by asserting that the district court was still free to give Cotton-Negron the body injury enhancement even if the facts were the same. The First Circuit, while expressing no view on whether the court could have done this, held that the district court \u201cmay not justify that difference based upon clearly erroneous facts.\u201d Accordingly, the case was remanded for re-sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has to Cotto-Negron argued at sentencing that he should not receive a two-level bodily injury enhancement under U.S.S.G. 2B3.1(b)(3)(A) because his co-defendant, the day before, was not sentenced with the enhancement and the facts of their cases were identical. 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