United States Fifth Circuit

A sentence for being unlawfully present in the U.S. is affirmed over a claim that the district court erred in looking to the indictment and the Certificate of Disposition in determining whether defendant's prior New York conviction was a crime of violence for purposes of imposing an enhancement under U.S.S.G. section 2L1.2.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/12/2007
• Published 10/15/2007

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, DAVIS and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Michael Dowd, Brownsville, TX, James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., Sarah Beth Landau, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.