United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for illegally reentering the U.S. is affirmed where the district court properly enhanced defendant's base offense level based on his previous conviction for sexual assault of a child, because that offense constituted a "crime of violence" under U.S.S.G. section 2L1.2(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/13/2009
• Published 07/13/2009

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and KING and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Amy Howell Alaniz, McAllen, TX, James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marjorie A. Meyers and Philip G. Gallagher, Fed. Pub. Defenders, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.