United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's convictions and sentence for unlawfully smuggling three aliens into the United States are affirmed where: 1) from the totality of the evidence, including defendant's conversations with and admissions to an undercover customs agent, a jury could reasonably infer that defendant was involved with the scheme throughout; and 2) when, as here, the district court correctly imposes a statutory mandatory minimum sentence that is greater than a defendant’s Guidelines range, any error in the guidelines calculations is harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/23/2010
• Published 08/23/2010

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• United States Eleventh Circuit

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