Jingles

ORDER

The court’s opinion filed June 8, 2012, is amended as follows: on slip opinion page 6521, line 16, replace “Like the petitioner in Cotton, Jingles did not preserve the issue in the district court, so like the claim in Cotton, Jingles’s claim is subject to plain error review.” with “Like the petitioner in Cotton, Jingles did not preserve the issue in the district court, so like the claim in Cotton, Jingles’s claim was subject to plain error review.”

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant Jingles appeals from the denial of his motion to set aside his convictions and sentences for two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 . We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 . We affirm.

After a jury trial, Jingles was convicted of a number of offenses relating to his participation in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine and cocaine base. The district judge sentenced Jingles to imprisonment for an aggregate term of 6,240 months (520 years) on the bulk of his counts, and to three terms of life imprisonment on counts two, twenty-one, and twenty-two. On direct appeal, we affirmed the judgment. See United States v. Jingles (Jingles II), 64 Fed.Appx. 82 (9th…