United States Fifth Circuit

A sentence for reentering the U.S. illegally after deportation is affirmed where defendant's prior Texas conviction for consensual sex with a person less than seventeen-years-old meets a "common sense" definition of "crime of violence" for purposes of sentence enhancement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/14/2006
• Published 09/15/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Mara A. Blatt, San Antonio, TX, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Henry Joseph Bemporad, Lucien B. Campbell, Fed. Pub. Def., San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.