United States v. Collins, Jeffrey

Five years after Jeffrey Collins’s plea agreement and conviction, the government asked the district court to find him in breach of the agreement. In this appeal we review whether the district court had jurisdiction to do this, and if so, whether the district court’s finding of breach was clearly erroneous. We hold that the district court had jurisdiction, and that its finding was not clearly erroneous.

Collins was indicted in 1987 as a leader of a ten-year drug operation that smuggled at least 140,000 pounds of marijuana into the United States, creating millions of dollars in proceeds for…