United States v. Delgado-Hernandez

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Ehrick F. Delgado-Hernández seeks to set aside his guilty plea to the charge of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking offense because of alleged errors in the plea proceedings. Although the plea proceedings in this case raised some problems, Delgado has not met his heavy burden of establishing that any deficiencies in the proceedings below amounted to plain error. Therefore, we affirm his conviction. 1

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On April 28, 2003, Delgado pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine…