United States Eighth Circuit

Warrants of deportation are not "testimonial" evidence that implicate the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. A conviction for illegal reentry after deportation is affirmed over a challenge to the admission of certain disputed evidence, but the sentence is vacated where defendant's prior conviction in Minnesota for second-degree manslaughter was not a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. section 16, or an "aggravated felony" under section 1326(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2007
• Published 05/09/2007

Judges

• COLLOTON, Circuit Judge., Before SMITH, BOWMAN, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John C. Brink, argued, Minneapolis, MN, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William H. Koch, Asst. U.S. Attorney, argued, Minneapolis, MN, for Appellee.