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1) Lawrence Cortez pled guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine. He was classified as a career offender based on prior convictions for aggravated battery and attempted cocaine trafficking. 2) Cortez argued he was incorrectly classified as a career offender because the Sentencing Commission lacked authority to include attempt crimes in the definition of predicate offenses. 3) The court affirmed the classification, citing a prior ruling that the Commission had statutory authority under 28 U.S.C. § 994(a)

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