United States First Circuit

Drug trafficking conviction and sentence are affirmed where defendant's guilty plea effectively foreclosed his right to complain about the government's compliance with former Rule 16(a)(1)(B), and his search for a downward departure is doomed by his failure to ask the sentencing court for one.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/17/2003
• Published 11/17/2003

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Douglas J. Beaton on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• H.S. Garcia, United States Attorney, Sonia I. Torres, Chief, Criminal Division, and Aramis G. Ríos, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief, for appellee.