Court Opinion

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       [NOT FOR PUBLICATION--NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]

                  United States Court of Appeals
                      For the First Circuit
                       ____________________

No. 97-1657

                          UNITED STATES,

                            Appellee,

                                v.

              COLLIER VAZQUEZ-CARDONA, A/K/A CHINCO,

                      Defendant, Appellant.

                       ____________________

           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

          [Hon. Jos Antonio Fust, U.S. District Judge]

                       ____________________

                              Before

                     Torruella, Chief Judge,

                 Lynch and Lipez, Circuit Judges.

                      _____________________

    Gabriel Hern ndez-Rivera, by appointment of the Court, for
appellant.
    Grace Chung Becker, Trial Attorney, Narcotic and Dangerous
Drug Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with
whom James K. Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, U.S. Department of Justice, and Theresa M.B. Van Vliet,
Chief, Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, Criminal Division, U.S.
Department of Justice, were on brief, for appellee.

                       ____________________

                        November 10, 1998
                       ____________________          Per Curiam.  This is an appeal from a sentence imposed
after defendant pled guilty pursuant to an agreement.  Defendant-
appellant argues on appeal that the sentence was in error in that
he was a minor participant and should therefore have been given a
two point reduction in his Base Offense Level.
          Assuming dubitante that there is any jurisdiction over
this appeal in light of defendant's agreement that the Base Offense
Level would be 36 and he would be entitled to no other reduction
than the three level adjustment for acceptance of responsibility,
we nonetheless affirm.  There is adequate evidence that the
defendant was not a minor participant.