United States v. Fuentes

The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's five year sentence, imposed after the revocation of defendant's supervised release. The court held that it was not plain that under existing law the statutory maximum revocation sentence was substantively unreasonable. The court rejected defendant's request for the court to read United States v. Willis, 563 F.3d 168, 169–70 (5th Cir. 2009), to have established a broad proposition that any sentence that was lengthened by an apparent constitutional defect in prior proceedings was substantively unreasonable. View "United States v. Fuentes" on Justia Law