United States v. Jimenes

WOOD, Chief Judge.

After pleading guilty to three federal drug and money-laundering offenses, Vincente Jimenes was sentenced to 151 months’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release. In this appeal, he contends that his constitutional rights were violated by the use, for Sentencing Guidelines purposes, of a state misdemeanor conviction that was obtained without the use of a Spanish interpreter. The district court reviewed the record of the conviction and was satisfied that enough informal translation took place to support a conclusion that his guilty plea was knowing. It did not need to…