United States v. Alvira-Sanchez, No. 14-1671 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant entered a straight guilty plea to several firearm-related and drug-related offenses. The district court sentenced Defendant to a total of 100 months’ imprisonment. Defendant appealed, challenging his sentence and asking the First Circuit to vacate the acceptance of his guilty plea, specifically alleging that the district court made several errors in accepting and entering his plea. The First Circuit (1) affirmed the conviction based on the entry of the guilty plea, holding that although several of Defendant’s claims of error in the district court’s acceptance of his plea had merit, the errors were harmless; and (2) remanded for consideration of a sentence reduction under Amendment 782 to the Drug Quantity Table of the United States Guidelines, as the parties agreed that Defendant was entitled to seek a sentencing reduction under this amendment.
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