United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for illegal reentry into the U.S. are affirmed where: 1) the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure permitted authentication of official documents under Fed. R. Evid. 901; and 2) defendant's prior California offense of assault with a deadly weapon or by means likely to produce great bodily injury constituted a crime of violence under U.S.S.G. section 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii).

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/07/2008
• Decided 10/05/2009
• Published 10/05/2009

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge:, Before RAYMOND C. FISHER and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and JAMES L. ROBART, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Vincent J. Brunkow, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Karen P. Hewitt, United States Attorney, Bruce R. Castetter, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, Stewart M. Young and Mark R. Rehe, Assistant United States Attorneys, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.