Legal Opinion
United States v. Colon-Rosario
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 19, 2019No. 17-2122PPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Dismayed by his 240-month prison sentence, defendant-appellant Alex Colón-Rosario claims that the prosecutor committed various breaches of his plea agreement (the Agreement) during the disposition hearing. Since the appellant raises these claims for the first time on appeal, our review is solely for plain error. Discerning none, we affirm the judgment below.
I. BACKGROUND
We briefly rehearse the relevant facts and travel of the case. Because this appeal trails in the wake of a guilty plea, we draw our account from the Agreement, the change-of-plea colloquy, the presentence…
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