BOUDIN, Chief Judge.
On this appeal, we face a narrow set of issues arising from a recent amendment of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("Maritime Act"), 46 U.S.C. app. §§ 1901 et seq. (2000), intended by Congress to facilitate the prosecution of high-seas drug smuggling on U.S. or stateless vessels. In a nutshell, the issue is whether, by pleading guilty unconditionally to a drug trafficking charge (possession of drugs on a stateless vessel...
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