Legal Opinion
Miguel Angel Diaz-Boyzo v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 26, 2008No. 08-10711UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Miguel Angel Diaz-Boyzo appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to vacate his sentence, 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The district court rejected Diaz-Boyzo’s motion based on a determination that he did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel. For the reasons that follow, we AFFIRM.
I. BACKGROUND
A federal grand jury in 2003 indicted Diaz-Boyzo for a number of offenses relating to the possession and distribution of methamphetamine and cocaine. He eventually was tried on four of these counts, including distribution of methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and…
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