recidivism. Cruz indeed has a substantial criminal history, including two felony narcotics offenses, an illegal reentry offense, an identity theft offense, and a bail jumping offense. Further, Cruz’s bail jumping enabled him to escape prosecution for an additional charge of passport fraud. After jumping bail on that charge, Cruz remained a fugitive for four years, during which time the government failed to preserve the evidence against him and could no longer pursue its case. Given Cruz’s repeated transgressions, the District Court acted within its allowable discretion in determining that a bottom-end Guidelines sentence was necessary to promote general and specific deterrence and respect for the law. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a); United States v. Fernandez, 443 F.3d 19, 27 (2d Cir.2006) (<HOLDING>); see also id. (noting that in conducting our
recognizing that in the overwhelming majority of cases a guidelines sentence will fall comfortably within the broad range of sentences that would be reasonable in the particular circumstances holding that a sentence within a properly calculated guidelines range is presumptively reasonable holding that the defendants sentence was within the guidelines range and therefore presumptively reasonable holding that sentences within the guideline range are presumptively reasonable holding a sentence within the advisory guidelines range is presumptively reasonable