Legal Opinion
Charles D. Lema v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 3, 1993No. 92-2087PublishedCited by 196 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Circuit Judge.
Charles Donald Lema, convicted of various drug charges, appeals the dismissal of his petition for postconviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Lema asserts that his attorney was ineffective, his trial was tainted by prosecutorial misconduct, and his sentencing proceeding was infected by factual error. We affirm.
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BACKGROUND
In 1989, following a federal undercover operation, Lema was indicted on two counts of conspiring with Raymond Souza to distribute cocaine to Alex Hood, a DEA informant, and on two related counts of aiding and abetting Souza’s cocaine distributions. The…
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