United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from a judgment of the district court sentencing appellant to a term of 70 months in prison for illegal reentry after deportation, 8 U.S.C. section 1326(a) and (b), judgment is affirmed where Laurico-Yeno remains good law such that appellant's prior conviction for willful infliction of corporal injury on a spouse is a categorical crime of violence under the Sentencing Guidelines and because the court provided a reasoned explanation for increasing appellant's offense level by sixteen points.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/14/2011
• Published 09/14/2011

Judges

• WARDLAW

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel