United States Eighth Circuit

A sentence for illegal reentry after deportation is affirmed where the district court did not err in looking at charging documents, as opposed to defendant's offered police reports, to determine whether defendant's state court conviction qualified as a "firearms offense" for purposes of a sentencing enhancement under the guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2006
• Published 06/09/2006

Judges

• COLLOTON, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, HEANEY, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Delaney, III, argued, Sioux Falls, SD, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark E. Salter, argued, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Sioux Falls, SD (John J. Ulrich, Asst. U.S. Attorney, on the brief), for appellee.