United States Fifth Circuit

A guilty plea conviction and sentence for illegal reentry is affirmed and the court of appeals indicates that James v. US, __ U.S. __, 127 S. Ct. 1586 (2007) now fully forecloses claims that Almendarez-Torres v. US, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), was wrongly decided.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/17/2007
• Published 07/17/2007

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julia Bowen Stern, James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., H. Michael Sokolow, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.