Legal Opinion

United States v. Magana-Guerrero

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided April 8, 1996No. Nos. 95-50066, 95-50067PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.

The principal question in these appeals is when lying to a pretrial services officer amounts to an obstruction of justice under the Sentencing Guidelines.

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The man known to us as Antonio Magana-Guerrero1 had nine prior convictions when he was arrested in connection with this ease: three for selling narcotics, one for possessing narcotics for sale, two for possessing narcot*400ics, and three for driving under the influence. He nevertheless told the pretrial services officer in his bail inteiwiew that he had no prior convictions. He pleaded guilty in this case to one count of…

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