Legal Opinion
Watketa Valenzuela v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 2001No. 00-2167PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Watketa Valenzuela, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, filed a habeas corpus petition alleging that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing in violation of the Sixth Amendment. In his petition, Valenzuela contends that his attorney failed to properly challenge the government’s evidence that the controlled substance in question was crack cocaine rather than powder cocaine or some other form of cocaine base. The district court rejected his petition, and he now appeals. Because we agree with the district court’s…
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