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U.S. v. WARD

No. 06-2354.

518 F.3d 75 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Christopher WARD, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 29, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chauncey B. Wood, with whom Shea, Larocque & Wood, was on brief, for appellant.

Steven H. Breslow, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, and Randall E. Kromm, Assistant United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and OBERDORFER, Senior District Judge.

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Focusing on deficiencies in a state court plea colloquy on the issue of voluntariness, Christopher Ward challenges on appeal his sentence of 120 months in prison for several drug-related convictions. Ward argues that his sentence is unreasonable as a matter of law because the district court relied on unconstitutional prior state convictions as the basis for a mandatory sentence enhancement under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). In assessing this...

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