Legal Opinion
United States v. Rivera-Maldonado
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 12, 2009No. 07-1426PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Carlos Rivera-Maldonado, who pled guilty to possession of child pornography, now asks us to vacate the judgment against him because he was misinformed about the consequences of his plea in a written plea agreement and during his change of plea colloquy. He was told that the maximum term of supervised release could be no more than three years. In fact, the applicable maximum term of supervised release was life, and that was the supervised release term imposed at sentencing. Although appellant did not contemporaneously object to this error or move to withdraw his…
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