Legal Opinion
United States v. Benjamin Corona-Garcia
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 14, 2000No. 98-50568PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge BRIGHT; Dissent by Judge REINHARDT
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
A jury convicted Benjamin Corona-Garcia of reentering the United States after he had been previously deported, a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). Corona-Garcia appeals and challenges both his conviction and sentence. Although we uphold Corona-Garcia’s conviction because he was entitled to neither substitution of counsel nor judgment of acquittal, as he argues, we nevertheless agree with Corona-Garcia’s contention that he was entitled to a three-level sentencing reduction for acceptance of responsibility rather than the…
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