Legal Opinion

Mateo v. United States

District Court, D. Massachusetts

Decided August 12, 2003No. CIV.A. 02-10043-PBSPublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Petitioner Felix Mateo brings a challenge under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2003) to his sentence for drug trafficking. In calculating Mateo’s sentence, the Court increased his criminal history category because Ma-teo had been on state-court probation— and subject to a probation violation warrant — at the time of the federal offenses. Mateo argues that his sentence must now be revised, because after sentencing Mateo obtained a state court order terminating his state probation nunc pro tunc to a time prior to the federal offenses. Deciding an issue…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Hill v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. Maleng v. CookSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  3. Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  4. Albernaz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  5. United States v. AddonizioSupreme Court of the United States · 1979

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Mateo v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2005
  2. Milton v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2006
  3. United States v. LopezDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2014
  4. Frazier v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2005

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