United States Fifth Circuit

A prior conviction for transporting aliens within the U.S., under 8 U.S.C. section 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii), constitutes a requisite "alien smuggling offense" for purposes of a sentence enhancement under U.S.S.G. section 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(vii).

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/12/2002
• Published 11/12/2002

Judges

• RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges, and AFRICK, District Judge .

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph H. Gay, Jr.,Mark Randolph Stelmach, Asst. U.S. Attys., San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Henry Joseph Bemporad, Lucien B. Campbell, Fed. Pub. Def., San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.