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U.S. v. ZAVALA-MARTÍ

No. 11-1283.

715 F.3d 44 (2013)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. José Manuel ZAVALA-MARTÍ, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 13, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Goldberger , with whom María H. Sandoval and Pamela A. Wilk were on brief, for appellant.

Dina Ávila-Jiménez , with whom Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, Nelson Pérez-Sosa , Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, and Thomas F. Klumper , Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, LIPEZ, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Appellant José Manuel Zavala-Martí ("Zavala") challenges the life sentence he received for his role in a large-scale drug operation that sold heroin, crack, cocaine, and marijuana at a public housing project in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. The second of forty-seven defendants charged in a ten-count superseding indictment, Zavala pled guilty at the end of the first day of testimony. He identifies four substantial procedural flaws in his sentencing...

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