United States v. Mejia-Encarnacion, No. 16-1030 (1st Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe First Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment convicting Defendant, after he pleaded guilty, to two counts of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute narcotics and sentencing him to 121 months’ imprisonment. Contrary to Defendant’s contentions on appeal, the Court held (1) the district court did not err at the change of plea hearing in concluding that Defendant was competent to plea without further inquiry into his mental state or whether the medications he was taking would affect the voluntariness of his plea; and (2) the district court did not abuse it discretion by denying Defendant’s third motion for substitute counsel after his plea was entered.
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