United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for illegally reentering the U.S. is affirmed, where kidnapping under Cal. Penal Code section 207(a) and second-degree robbery under Cal. Penal Code section 211, of which Defendant was convicted, are "crimes of violence" under Section 2L1.2 of the Sentencing Guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2009
• Published 07/20/2009

Judges

• TACHA, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, McKAY, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy J. Henry, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Kansas, Wichita, KS, appearing for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Leon Patton, Assistant United States Attorney (Marietta Parker, Acting United States Attorney, Brent I. Anderson, Assistant United States Attorney, and James A. Brown, Assistant United States Attorney, on the briefs), Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, Wichita, KS, appearing for Appellee.