United States First Circuit

Dispositions involving delinquency findings are not diversionary; defendant's admission to facts sufficient for conviction is tantamount to a guilty plea, making defendant ineligible for the "safety valve" provision, under the United States Sentencing Guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2000
• Published 11/01/2000

Judges

• BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carlos J. Martínez for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Margaret E. Curran, a United States Attorney, and James H. Leavey, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.