Legal Opinion
Rizo v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 1, 2016No. 15-10679PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Per curiam
Abel Rizo appeals denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or reduce his sentence, following an evidentiary hearing on remand. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Underlying Criminal Case
Rizo emigrated from Cuba to the United States with his family as a child and settled in Miami, Florida. From August 1992 to May 1996, Rizo attended Lambuth University in Jackson, Tennessee, on a football scholarship. Rizo was arrested for drug, firearm, robbery, and conspiracy crimes in June 1996. There were fourteen codefendants, including his father, mother, and brother. Rizo and his codefendants…
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