Criminal Law: Effectiveness of Counsel-Firearm Offense-Factual Basis

Where a defendant in a drug-and-firearm case argued that he received ineffective assistance of counsel, the court declines to address the argument on direct appeal, and the judgment is affirmed due to the defendant’s claim that there was an inadequate factual basis for his plea on the firearm offense because it was undisputed that he sold cocaine base and a handgun in a simultaneous transaction.

Judgment is affirmed.

U.S. v. Trevillion (MLW No. 73201/Case No. 18-2936 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska.