Legal Opinion
United States v. Hector Mendoza-Morales
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 21, 2003No. 02-10659PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATZ, District Judge:
I
INTRODUCTION
The question presented in this appeal is whether, in calculating a convicted defendant’s criminal history under Section 4A1.1 of the Guidelines Manual of the United States Sentencing Commission (“Guidelines”), the court must classify a prior state criminal sentence in the same manner that the state court did. In computing Appellant Hector Mendoza-Morales’s criminal history, the district court construed two California “jail-as-a-condition-of-probation” sentences as “sentences of imprisonment,” notwithstanding that California law deems them to be…
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