Legal Opinion
United States v. Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 7, 2011No. 10-41188PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-Appellant Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez appeals his sentence of 27 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release for illegal reentry after deportation. We affirm.
Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez pleaded guilty without the benefit of a plea agreement to illegal reentry after deportation. He argues that the 27-month sentence he received is substantively unreasonable because it improperly considered a “stale” prior conviction, and because the sentencing judge failed to give sufficient consideration to his cultural assimilation.
At sentencing, the…
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