Punishment
Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant?
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED : : 1) Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant? ; : 2) Whether the district court committed reversible plain error in the application : of sentencing defendant to 170 months to run consecutive to his prior 60 month sentence? _ 3) Whether the defendant could have known the "certainty" of the consequences of the ambiguous:iplea agreement in which he was lead into through defense , counsel? ; . 4) Whether the district court committed reversible plain error in the:application and sentencing the defendant as a career offender and enhancing his criminal history category from III to VI? 5) Whether the district court committed reverible plain error in use of defendant's : prior convictions to enhance and to establish him as a career offender? — i , .