United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's sentence enhancement for having a prior conviction of a crime of violence is vacated where criminally negligent homicide under Texas Law is not an enumerated crime of violence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/22/2004
• Published 09/22/2004

Judges

• RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKSDALE and PICKERING, Circuit Judges, and LYNN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mitchel Neurock (argued), Laredo, TX, James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for U.S., Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., Kyle Blair Welch, Laura Fletcher Leavitt, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def. (argued), Houston, TX, for Dominguez-Ochoa.