United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for illegally reentering the U.S. is affirmed where a conviction under 8 U.S.C. section 1324(a)(1) is categorically an "alien smuggling offense" under U.S.S.G. section 2L1.2(b)(1)(A), and thus the district court properly enhanced defendant's sentence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/09/2009
• Decided 08/27/2009
• Published 08/27/2009

Judges

• N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before: JOHN T. NOONAN, MARSHA S. BERZON, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David T. Shannon, Assistant Arizona Federal Public Defender, Tuscon, AZ, for defendant-appellant, Sair Guzman-Mata., Celeste B. Corlett and George Ferko, Assistant United States Attorneys for the District of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, for appellee United States of America.