Rubio
United States v. Rubio
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Felix Rubio pled guilty to one count of conspiring to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 (a)(1) and 846. He now challenges aspects of his plea colloquy and asserts Apprendi error in the imposition of his sentence. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm the district court.
We find no plain error in the district court’s Fed.R.Crim.P. 11 colloquy. See United States v. Jimenez-Dominguez, 296 F.3d 863, 866 (9th Cir.2002) (citing United States v. Vonn, 535 U.S. 55 ,-, 122 S.Ct. 1043, 1048 , 152 L.Ed.2d 90 (2002)). The district court did not plainly err by affirming the defense counsel’s inaccurate recitation of the applicable minimum sentence because it neither “affected [Rubio’s] substantial rights,” nor “seriously affectfed] the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.” United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725, 732 , 113 S.Ct. 1770 , 123 L.Ed.2d 508 (1993). This is because the alleged sentencing dispute concerned whether the mandatory ten-year minimum sentence required a methamphetamine quantity of five hundred or one thousand grams, and Rubio was determined to have conspired to manufacture three…