United States Seventh Circuit

Sentence for illegal reentry is vacated and remanded where the Illinois offense of "putative father" child abduction is neither a crime of violence nor an aggravated felony for purposes of the increased offense levels specified in U.S.S.G. section 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) and (b)(1)(C) for the crime of illegal reentry after deportation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/02/2007
• Decided 01/02/2008
• Published 01/02/2008

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before EVANS, WILLIAMS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel E. May (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Richard H. Parsons, Andrew J. McGowan (argued), Jonathan E. Hawley, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.