Legal Opinion
United States v. Willie Jones
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 6, 2012No. 11-3830PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
Willie V. Jones pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C), and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). After entering his plea, Jones moved to withdraw the plea, arguing his counsel had given him inadequate information about the Sentencing Guidelines. The district court 2 denied the motion to withdraw. Over Jones’s objections, the court applied the career offender provisions of the Sentencing Guidelines and sentenced Jones to consecutive…
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