Vargas-De Jesus v. United States, No. 14-1030 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance within one thousand feet of a school and one count of conspiracy to do the same. Defendant later filed a 28 U.S.C. 2255 petition for post-conviction relief, arguing that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance at sentencing. The district court denied the petition. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that Defendant failed to established that his counsel’s failure to challenge the quantity determination in the presentence report resulted from an unreasonably deficient judgment.
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