Opinion ID: 3025352
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Heading: Pierre

Text: While Pierre was serving a seven-year New Jersey state sentence for drug trafficking offenses, a one-count indictment was issued on May 25, 2006, charging him with illegal reentry after removal for an aggravated felony conviction, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2). Pierre agreed to plead guilty to the indictment, and the plea agreement provided: Andrew J. Pierre knows that he has and . . . voluntarily waives... the right to file any appeal, any collateral attack, or any other writ or motion, including but not limited to an appeal under 18 U.S.C. § 3742 or a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, which challenges the sentence imposed by the sentencing court if that sentence falls within or below the Guidelines range that results from the agreed total Guidelines offense level of 21. 1 Based on his Criminal History Category of VI, Wykoff’s total Guidelines offense level of 13 resulted in a Guidelines range of 33 to 41 months. 3 After a colloquy with Pierre, the District Court concluded that his decision to plead guilty was knowing, intelligent, and voluntary, and accepted his plea. The District Court sentenced Pierre to 82 months’ imprisonment2 to run consecutively to his undischarged term of imprisonment imposed by the State of New Jersey. Pierre appealed.