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- Title: Bethel v. United States
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Release Date : January 17, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
Description
Julian C. Bethel pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. He was sentenced to 192 months imprisonment. That sentence was based in part on the classification of Bethel as a "career offender" pursuant to § 4B1.1 of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines ("Guidelines"). We affirmed that sentence in an unpublished order, United States v. Bethel, 2003 WL 1545261 (7th Cir. March 24, 2003), and Bethel subsequently filed a motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The crux of Bethels claim is that his attorney provided ineffective assistance by failing to warn him before he pled guilty that he would be subject to treatment as a career offender, instead advising him that his sentence would be in the range of 100-125 months, substantially less than the 192 months to which he was ultimately sentenced. The district court rejected his claim, and we affirm.
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