United States v. Walter Mays

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to construe the mandate of Fed.R.Crim.P. 32(a)(1)(A) that “the court shall ... determine that the defendant and his counsel have had the opportunity to read and discuss the presentence investigation report____” Proceeding pro se, appellant Walter L. Mays challenges a judgment of sentence following a jury trial in which he was convicted of three narcotic offenses: conspiracy to import heroin (21 U.S.C. § 963); importation of heroin (21 U.S.C. § 952(a)); and possession of heroin with the intent to distribute (21 U.S.C. § 846). 1…