Legal Opinion
Abraham Estremera v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 2013No. 12-2043PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Abraham Estremera was sentenced to life imprisonment following his convictions for conspiring to distribute cocaine plus possessing a firearm despite an earlier felony conviction. We affirmed his convictions and sentence, along with those of some confederates. United States v. Bustamante, 493 F.3d 879 (7th Cir.2007). Estremera then sought collateral relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, contending that his lawyer had misstated the terms of a plea bargain proposed by the prosecutor. Had the lawyer done his job, Estremera insisted, he would, have pleaded guilty and could have…
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