United States First Circuit

Enhanced sentencing of defendant upon a conviction for drug-related offenses and a determination that he is a career offender based in part on a prior state youthful offender adjudication, U.S.S.G. section 4B1.1 (2008), is reversed where state law classifies youthful offender adjudications differently from adult convictions such that defendant's prior adjudication is not a career offender predicate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2011
• Published 06/22/2011

Judges

• BOUDIN

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel