U.S. v. FELIZ

No. 05-1383.

453 F.3d 33 (2006)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. William FELIZ, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 27, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence A. Vogelman for appellant.

Rachel E. Hershfang, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, CYR and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judges.


STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.

William Feliz was convicted of conspiring to possess and distribute heroin and was sentenced to a prison term of 97 months' duration. He now challenges the district court's decision not to reduce his sentence under the safety-valve provision of the Sentencing Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) (2000), and contends that the district court misunderstood the Supreme Court's then-recent decision in United

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