US v. Gonzalez-Colon

Filing 920090914

Opinion

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var WPFootnote1 = '                   Of the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.\
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var WPFootnote2 = '                   The district court reduced the offense level calculation\
from the plea agreement following the November 1, 2007, amendments\
to the Guidelines.\
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var WPFootnote3 = '                   González also argues for a miscarriage of justice because\
the district court acted with a “faulty memory” in sentencing him\
to 97 months, a deviation from the sentencing recommendation in the\
plea agreement. Because, however, the plea agreement called for a\
minimum of 108 months, we fail to see how the defendant’s windfall\
amounts to a miscarriage of justice. The better argument on this\
issue — though not by much — is that the deviation means the\
sentence is outside of the scope of the waiver, and therefore the\
waiver is inapplicable. We address this argument below. \
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var WPFootnote4 = '                   U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(a)(1) defines a “prior sentence” as “any\
sentence previously imposed upon adjudication of guilt...for\
conduct not part of the instant offense.”\
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var WPFootnote5 = '                   Indeed, before the district court, González argued for\
something like the reverse: that because the “instant offense”\
included only the March and April 2006 drug sales detailed in the\
plea agreement, it predated the state court’s imposition of\
probation on July 11, 2006, and therefore adding two points\
pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(d) was error. The district court\
properly concluded that because the instant offense was a\
conspiracy, it did not end until the December 20, 2006, indictment,\
see United States v. Hernandez, 541 F.3d 422, 425 (1st Cir. 2008),\
at which point González had already been placed on probation by the\
commonwealth court. \
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