United States v. Martinez-Hernandez

BENTON, Circuit Judge.

Sergio Martinez-Hernandez pled guilty to transporting his 11-year-old stepdaughter from Arkansas to Florida to engage in sexual activity. He is already serving a 20-year state sentence for the attempted sexual battery of his step-daughter in Florida. At federal sentencing, the district court1 applied a four-level enhancement because Martinez-Hernandez abducted his victim. See U.S.S.G. § 2A3.1(b)(5). The court sentenced him to 235 months (plus 10 days), the bottom of the applicable guideline range. The federal sentence runs concurrent with the (longer) state sentence,…