United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for being an alien unlawfully found in the U.S. following removal is vacated where the district court improperly failed to allow defendant to allocute before imposing the sentence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/18/2009
• Published 09/18/2009

Judges

• PRADO, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, DeMOSS and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lauretta Ann Drake, James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., Laura Fletcher Leavitt, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.