U.S. v. Zavala-Marti, No. 11-1283 (1st Cir.) (715 F.3d 44) (May 13, 2013) (Judge Kermit A. Lipez)
This case is noted as a good example of a sentencing gone badly awry. Not only did the First Circuit find that “the general sentence of life imprisonment imposed on the [defendant] must be vacated because it exceeds the statutory maximum on each of the nine counts” to which the ...
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