U.S. v. JACA-NAZARIO

Nos. 05-2114, 06-2157.

521 F.3d 50 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carlos JACA-NAZARIO, Defendant, Appellant. United States of America, Appellee, v. Carlos Jaca-Nazario, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 27, 2008,


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maria H. Sandoval, for appellant.

Germán A. Rieckehoff, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney, Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief Appellate Division, Jacqueline D. Novas, Assistant United States Attorney, and Thomas F. Klumper, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.

Before HOWARD, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and DYK, Circuit Judge.


HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Carlos Jaca Nazario ("Jaca") pled guilty to conspiring to transport cocaine in two separate criminal cases. He was sentenced by a different judge for each plea. He makes a variety of claims on appeal, some directed at one sentence, some at the other, and some at both. Because we find that the district court erred in its determination of whether the conduct underlying each case was, in the parlance of the federal sentencing guidelines, "relevant...

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