United States v. Nichols

Appellant, William Nichols, appeals the district court’s denial of his motions to correct his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and for appointment of counsel under 18 U.S.C. § 3006A(a)(2)(B). We vacate and remand in part and affirm in part.

BACKGROUND

Appellant was convicted in February 1992 of three counts of distributing crack cocaine within a thousand feet of a public school in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 860(a). At sentencing, the district court found Appellant a career felon based on two state drug convictions. Accordingly, the district court enhanced Appellant’s sentence to 262…