Legal Opinion
United States v. Ocasio-Cancel
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 19, 2013No. 12-1103PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
After accepting his guilty plea, the district court sentenced defendant-appellant Angel Ocasio-Cancel to serve 87 months in prison. In his ensuing appeal, the defendant asseverates that his guilty plea was neither voluntary nor knowing and, in any event, the district court’s sentencing methodology was flawed. After careful consid eration of this asseverational array, we affirm both the defendant’s conviction and his sentence.
Because this appeal follows a guilty plea, we draw the facts from the plea agreement, the change-of-plea colloquy, the unchallenged portions of the…
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