Legal Opinion

United States v. Mateo-Espejo

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided October 21, 2005No. 03-1177PublishedCited by 53 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Kenny Mateo-Espejo pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to distribute more than fifty grams of crack cocaine, see 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, and distribution of that amount of crack cocaine, see id. § 841(a)(1). He now appeals his sentence. Concluding, as we do, that the district court committed no reversible error in the course of sentencing, we affirm the judgment below.

I. BACKGROUND

Because this appeal follows a guilty plea, we draw the relevant facts from the change-of-plea colloquy, the unchallenged portions of the presentence investigation…

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