Legal Opinion
Gabriel Mendoza v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 18, 2014No. 13-3195, 13-3196PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Gabriel Mendoza was sentenced to multiple terms of life imprisonment after he was convicted of a drug conspiracy and other drug offenses in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. Mendoza appealed, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence as to the conspiracy conviction and his sentence, and we affirmed. United States v. Mendoza, 401 Fed.Appx. 128 (7th Cir.2010). Mendoza then petitioned for relief from his convictions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, claiming that he was denied due process when the district court moved one of his Spanish-speaking…
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