Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
Defendant's sentence for illegal reentry of a removed alien is affirmed where a Colorado conviction for attempted sexual assault on a child was a "crime of violence" under the Sentencing Guidelines that warranted a sixteen-level sentencing enhancement.
Read US v. De La Cruz-Garcia, No. 08-2298
Appellate Information
Filed January 5, 2010
Judges
Opinion by Judge Lucero
Counsel
For Appellant:
Scott M. Davidson, Scott M. Davidson, Ph.D., Esq., LLC, Albuquerque, NM
For Appellee:
Laura Fashing, Office of the United States Attorney, District of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM