United States v. Cardona-Diaz

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellant Cardona-Diaz (Cardona) challenges the 87-month sentence he received after pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute a controlled substance. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a). We dismiss Cardona’s appeal, because it is barred as a result of the waiver of appeal to which he consented in his plea agreement.

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From approximately the year 2000 until he was indicted in May of 2005, Cardona was part of a group that sold cocaine, cocaine base (crack), and marijuana around Barrio Corazón in Guayama, Puer-to Rico. Cardona was a seller for one…