Jimenez-Isale v. USA

Case Date: 04/28/1994
Court: United States Court of Appeals
Docket No: 93-2086


April 26, 1994 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

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No. 93-2086


MANUEL JIMENEZ-ISALE,

Plaintiff, Appellant,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendant, Appellee.
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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

[Hon. Juan M. Perez-Gimenez, U.S. District Judge]
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Before

Breyer, Chief Judge,
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Selya and Boudin, Circuit Judges.
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Manuel Jimenez-Isale on brief pro se.
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Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Michael E.
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O'Hare, Trial Attorney, on brief for appellee.
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Per Curiam. We have reviewed carefully the record in
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this case, the report and recommendation of the magistrate

judge, the opinion and order of the district court, and the

parties' briefs. We find no merit in appellant's appeal of

the denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief pursuant

to 28 U.S.C. 2255.

We make only two remarks. First, a review of the

transcript of appellant's change of plea hearing makes clear

that appellant "received 'real notice of the true nature of

the charge against him,'" Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637,
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645 (1976) (quoting Smith v. O'Grady, 312 U.S. 329, 334
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(1941)), and, therefore, that his plea was "voluntary in a

constitutional sense," id. Second, inasmuch as the sentence
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imposed upon appellant was within the statutory limits, the

fact that it was imposed by a different judge from the one

who sentenced appellant's coconspirator "is an adequate

explanation for the disparity [in sentences] and eliminates

any possible appearance of vindictiveness." United States v.
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Quejada-Zurique, 708 F.2d 857, 861 (1st Cir.), cert. denied,
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464 U.S. 855 (1983).

Affirmed.
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