Legal Opinion
United States v. Jose Leonardo Contreras-Subias
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 7, 1994No. 92-50722PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Contreras-Subias pled guilty to possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and money laundering. Due to a mistake in the phrasing of his plea agreement and in the sentence based on it, his prison term as worded was to run both concurrently with and consecutively to another federal sentence he was already serving. The clear intention of the plea agreement and the sentencing judge was that the new sentence run consecutive to the old sentences. Contreras-Subias moved for correction, asking that the “consecutive” provisions be vacated. The district court corrected…
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