United States v. Randy Steven Boose

Randy Boose pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, having previously been convicted of one or more felony drug offenses, see 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(A), 846, 851. The district court 1 then sentenced him to 270 months in prison. He argues that the district court failed to give him his right to allocution before sentencing him.

Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(4)(A)(ii) states that “[bjefore imposing sentence, the court must ... address the defendant personally in order to permit the defendant to speak or present any…