United States v. Jaime Price

MEMORANDUM

Jaime Docherty Price pled guilty in October 1998 to two counts relating to a robbery of the owner of a restaurant engaged in interstate commerce. Count One alleged a violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951 , and Count Two alleged the use of a firearm in the commission of the Hobbs Act robbery in violation of 18 . U.S.C. § 924(c). Price was one of several defendants named in the indictment. Price served 101 months in prison and three years under supervised release, but continues to owe restitution and face collateral consequences from his conviction. Price filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis in federal district court, which the district court denied. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

1. Price argues that the district court erred in concluding that his guilty plea barred this collateral attack on his conviction. This argument is without merit. “As a general rule, a defendant who enters a voluntary and intelligent guilty plea ‘may not thereafter raise independent claims relating to the deprivation of constitutional rights that occurred prior to the entry of the guilty plea.’” United States v. Garcia-Valenzuela, 23 2 F.3d 1003,…