United States v. Ayala-Pizarro
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Luis Daniel Ayala-Pizarro was convicted, after a four-day jury trial, of possession with intent to distribute 158 decks of heroin and of knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)®. He was acquitted of two additional gun charges involving possession of semiautomatic assault weapons. He was sentenced to twenty-four months’ imprisonment on the first charge and sixty months on the second, to be served consecutively for a total of eighty-four months’ imprisonment. He attacks both his conviction…
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