United States First Circuit

Defendant's convictions and sentence for drug distribution, robbery, and firearm charges, entered following defendant's guilty plea, are affirmed, where: 1) although the district court may have been on notice that defendant struggled with mental illness generally, there is no abuse of discretion in the district court's failure to sua sponte order a hearing on the specific issue of competency; 2) defendant's plea colloquy was not deficient; 3) defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim fails; and 4) the district court did not err in imposing a ten-year mandatory minimum sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/25/2014
• Published 06/25/2014

Judges

• HOWARD

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel