Jose Joel Jimenez v. United States

Jose Joel Jimenez was duly convicted after he pled guilty to two separate offenses of transporting and smuggling marijuana, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 176(a). He appeals from the district court’s rejection of his Section 2255 petition to vacate his concurrent 15 year sentences. Jimenez contends that his guilty plea was infirm because (1) he was misled and coerced by both his own counsel and the trial court when they mistakenly informed him that by statute the sentence to be imposed did not carry the possibility of probation or parole; (2) the trial judge did not specifically enumerate and…