United States v. Servando Reyes-Alvarado, United States of America v. Martin Gonzalez-Ramirez

Appellants Servando Reyes-Alvarado and Martin Gonzalez-Ramirez were convicted of involvement in the same conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine. Reyes-Alvarado appeals his conviction for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute ten kilograms of methamphetamine, and aiding and abetting the possession of the same quantity of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.

Gonzalez-Ramirez pled guilty to aiding and abetting the possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute. He challenges his guilty plea as having an insufficient factual basis. Gonzalez-Ramirez also challenges his sentence. This court has jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm both appellants' convictions.

FACTS

During July of 1989, Abalardo Gamboa-Hernandez, a confidential informant, met Martin Gonzalez-Ramirez in a San Diego jail. They discussed the possibility of Gonzalez-Ramirez selling methamphetamine to Gamboa-Hernandez upon their release.

The two talked several times by phone between February 20 and February 27, 1990. They agreed that Gonzalez-Ramirez would deliver ten pounds of methamphetamine at $7,000 per…