Legal Opinion
United States v. Martinez-Vargas
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 4, 2003No. 02-1155PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Elvy Martinez-Vargas pleaded guilty both to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and to a related attempt count. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846. He now appeals his sentence, arguing that the district court should have credited him for a mitigating role in the offense of conviction and that his sentence was tainted by ineffective assistance of counsel. Concluding, as we do, that the first claim is unavailing and the second unripe, we affirm the appellant’s sentence.
We draw the relevant facts from the…
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