Opinion ID: 3063114
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Text: Nelson was indicted on one count of persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of making a visual depiction of such conduct, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a). R1-2. The government provided Nelson with a written plea agreement, which specified that he faced, inter alia, a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years of imprisonment and up to 30 years of imprisonment and up to 5 years of supervised release. R1-51(2) at 2. Nelson signed the plea agreement on 22 December 2008. Id. at 7. On the same day, the district court held a Fed.R.Crim.P. 11 colloquy, but the colloquy was aborted mid-way through the proceedings because Nelson disagreed with some of the facts the government proffered in support of the plea. R3 at 8-14. The district court did not discuss the terms of Nelson’s sentence. 2 In February 2009, the district court held another plea colloquy, during which the prosecutor told Nelson that the possible penalties he faced were, inter alia, a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years of imprisonment and up to 30 years of imprisonment and up to 5 years of supervised release. R4 at 11. The district court then accepted Nelson’s guilty plea without a written plea agreement. Id. at 15-16. The presentence investigation report (PSI) indicated that Nelson’s guideline imprisonment range was 210 to 262 months of imprisonment, and his minimum term of supervised release was 5 years and the maximum term was life. PSI ¶¶ 83, 86, 93. Attached to the PSI was a sentencing recommendation, recommending that Nelson be sentenced to 236 months of imprisonment followed by 25 years of supervised release. PSI Sentencing Recommendation. Nelson did not object to the term of supervised release stated in the PSI. PSI Addendum. At the sentencing hearing, Nelson affirmed that he had reviewed the PSI “in detail” and that he had no objections to the PSI. R6 at 2. Nelson requested that he be sentenced at the bottom of the guidelines range and that his sentence run concurrently with his sentence in a separate case in the Southern District of Florida. Id. at 6. The district court determined that the PSI was accurate and sentenced Nelson to 236 months of imprisonment to run consecutive to his Southern District of Florida sentence. Id. at 15. The district court also sentenced 3 Nelson to 25 years of supervised release to run concurrently to his 25-year supervised release period imposed by the Southern District of Florida. Id. at 6, 16. Following the imposition of the sentence, the district court again solicited objections, and Nelson did not object to the term of supervised release. Id. at 1920.