U.S. v. RIVERA-MALDONADO

No. 07-1426.

560 F.3d 16 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carlos RIVERA-MALDONADO, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 12, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ignacio Fernndez de Lahongrais for appellant.

Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez, United States Attorney, and Nelson Prez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, for appellee.

Before Lipez and Howard, Circuit Judges, and DiClerico, District Judge.


LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Carlos Rivera-Maldonado, who pled guilty to possession of child pornography, now asks us to vacate the judgment against him because he was misinformed about the consequences of his plea in a written plea agreement and during his change of plea colloquy. He was told that the maximum term of supervised release could be no more than three years. In fact, the applicable maximum term of supervised release was life, and that was the supervised...

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