Legal Opinion
United States v. Sergio Zuniga-Lazaro
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 3, 2004No. 03-3866PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Sergio Zuniga-Lazaro, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty to being present in the United States without the permission of the Attorney General after previously having been deported. The district court ordered him to serve a prison term of 57 months, a sentence at the top of the range specified by the Sentencing Guidelines. Zuniga-Lazaro appeals, contending that the district court may have denied his request for a downward departure because it misunderstood the nature of one of his prior convictions and that the court erred in assigning criminal history…
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