BOSTON — The First Circuit rejected a 135-month sentence for a Venezuelan pilot who was caught trafficking cocaine from Venezuela to Puerto Rico because the defendant merely piloted the plane. The sentence should be reconsidered in light of his mitigating role. Though he was told, at an encampment staffed by armed FARC militiamen, that “if he did the flight, [he] could return home,” the First Circuit declines to find error in the lower court’s finding that this was no “serious threat of physical injury.”
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