United States v. Mancinas-Flores

ORDER

The opinion filed on December 2, 2009, is amended as follows:

588 F.3d p. 681, Section II, ¶ 1, line 7. Delete “(en banc)”.

588 F.3d p. 682, ¶ 3, lines 8-9. Delete the parenthetical “, sitting en banc,”.

OPINION

ADELMAN, District Judge:

A Phoenix grand jury indicted defendant Bernardo Mancinas-Flores for a variety of offenses arising out of defendant’s involvement in smuggling undocumented aliens into the United States and holding them for ransom in a stash house. On the morning the trial was to begin, defendant decided to enter into a plea agreement with the government pursuant to which he…