United States v. Jackson

GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.

Wayne Jackson contends that the federal district court charged with assessing an appropriate sentence for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine erred by • considering his .prior uncounseled state misdemeanor sentences for domestic violence and the negligent use of a firearm, and that this error implicates his Sixth. Amendment right to counsel. Our case law and repeated guidance from the Supreme Court, however, instruct that a federal sentencing court may, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, take into account a defendant’s previous uncounseled…