United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence on drug and weapons charges are affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) the district court erred in refusing to sever several of the charges; 2) the district court erred in admitting extrinsic evidence of an alleged prior inconsistent statement; 3) the district court erroneously denied his motion to suppress drugs seized during an inventory search of his vehicle; 4) the district court erred in sentencing him as a career offender and as an armed career criminal; and 5) the district court erroneously failed to determine whether sentencing entrapment or sentencing factor manipulation had occurred.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/08/2008
• Published 02/08/2008

Judges

• GELPÍ, District Judge., Before LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and GELPÍ, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew V. Soares, with whom Melvin Richardson, pro se, was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Vijay Shanker, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, with whom Paul Hart Smyth, Assistant United States Attorney, and Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.