United States v. Hayes

MINER, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-appellant Derrick Hayes (“Hayes”) appeals from a January 10, 2007 judgment of conviction and sentence entered in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont (Sessions III, C.J.), following a guilty plea to one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C). The court imposed a sentence of time served, a term of home confinement of 6 months, and a term of supervised release of 3 years.

Prior to Hayes’s guilty plea, the District Court had denied, in a May 5, 2006 Amended Opinion and Order,…