Legal Opinion
United States v. Jose Maria Mendoza-Figueroa
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 7, 1995No. 93-2867PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*692LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
After Jose Maria Mendoza-Figueroa pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana, the district court1 sentenced him as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 because of his two prior drug convictions. Mendoza-Figueroa appealed the resulting 236-month sentence. A divided panel of this circuit reversed, agreeing with United States v. Price, 990 F.2d 1367 (D.C.Cir.1993), that the Sentencing Commission “exceeded the statutory underpinnings of the career offender provisions” by including drug conspiracy offenses in its definition of offenses that qualify a defendant…
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