United States Ninth Circuit

Defendants' sentences for illegal reentry into the U.S. are affirmed, where the District Court in each Defendant's case properly included Defendants' intervening state law crimes, before they were discovered by immigration authorities, in their criminal history calculation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/24/2008
• Decided 06/26/2009
• Published 06/26/2009

Judges

• Before:  HARRY PREGERSON, CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Phillip I. Bronson, Sherman Oaks, CA, for defendant-appellant, Cruz-Gramajo;  Davina T. Chen, Deputy Federal Public Defender, for defendant-appellant, Aguilar-Rodriguez;  Michael Tanaka, Deputy Federal Public Defender, for defendant-appellant Pulido;  Gia Kim Deputy Federal Public Defender, for defendants-appellants Aguilar-Rodriguez and Pulido., Jeff P. Mitchell, Assistant United States Attorney, Domestic Security and Immigration Crimes Section;  Erik M. Silber, Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Appeals Section, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.