U.S. v. Cruz

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 160-month term of incarceration on drug distribution charge, even though defendant argued that Dist. Ct. had failed to consider certain arguments in mitigation, and that said sentence was substantively unreasonable. Defendant waived any argument that Dist. Ct. failed to address any mitigation claims, since defense counsel agreed with Dist. Ct. at sentencing hearing that all such arguments had been addressed. Moreover, instant sentence was not substantially unreasonable, where sentence was within applicable sentencing guidelines, and where Dist. Ct. weighed defendant’s mitigation arguments concerning his children and ill grandmother against need to deter defendant given his recent criminal history that included another instance of selling drugs.