United States Ninth Circuit

Sentence for illegal reentry into the U.S. is affirmed, where Defendant's prior conviction under Cal. Pen. Code section 288(a) constituted "sexual abuse of a minor," qualifying it as a "crime of violence" that warranted a sixteen-level increase under U.S.S.G. section 2L1.2.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/03/2009
• Decided 05/28/2009
• Published 05/28/2009

Judges

• Before:  HARRY PREGERSON, SUSAN P. GRABER, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michelle D. Anderson, Law Offices of Michelle D. Anderson, San Diego, CA, for defendant-appellant Cosme Medina-Villa., Karen P. Hewitt, U.S. Atty., Christina M. McCall (on the brief), and Mark R. Rehe (at argument and on supplemental briefing), Asst. U.S. Attys., San Diego, CA, for plaintiff-appellee United States of America.