Legal Opinion
United States v. Diaz
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 20, 2016No. Nos. 10-50029, 10-50052, 10-50058, 10-50059, 10-50062, 10-50064, 10-50072, 10-50076, 10-50113, 10-50115PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BYBEE, Circuit Judge:
Jesse Vasquez was a mid-level leader in the Florencia Trece gang who was convicted of drug-related -crimes for his part in the gang’s drug trafficking operations. The district court sentenced Vasquez to life imprisonment because his two prior California felonies qualified him for a mandatory sentence ■ enhancement under 21 U.S.C. § 841.
Four years after Vasquez’s sentencing, California adopted Proposition 47, which allowed California courts to reclassify certain felony convictions as misdemeanor convictions, Vasquez successfully petitioned a California court to…
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