Legal Opinion
United States v. Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 12, 2002No. 01-2639PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
After defendant-appellant Robert S. Rodriguez pleaded guilty to manufacturing cocaine base (crack cocaine), the district court sentenced him as a career offender. In this appeal, Rodriguez argues that his state-court conviction for burglary of a building other than a dwelling was improperly treated as a predicate offense for purposes of the career offender designation and, accordingly, that his sentence should be vacated. We find his argument waived and, in all events, unpersuasive. Consequently, we affirm the sentence.
The background facts are uncontroversial. A federal…
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