United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's sentence for attempted reentry into the U.S. is affirmed where: 1) a conviction under Wash. Rev. Code section 9A.44.076(1) categorically constituted "sexual abuse of a minor" and was therefore a crime of violence warranting a sixteen-level increase; and 2) the district court did not impose a procedurally or substantively unreasonable sentence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/13/2010
• Decided 04/06/2010
• Published 04/06/2010

Judges

• Before ALFRED T. GOODWIN, WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR. and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven F. Hubachek, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., David P. Curnow, Steve Miller (argued), Assistant United States Attorneys, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.