Legal Opinion
United States v. Velez-Alderete
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 2, 2009No. 08-20557PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Per curiam
Pablo Velez-Alderete pleaded guilty to being found in the United States after having been deported. The district court sentenced him to 70 months’ imprisonment based on, among other things, a 16-level enhancement for a prior conviction of a crime of violence due to Velez-Alderete’s arson conviction in Texas. Now, VelezAlderete asserts that the district court erred in calculating his sentence by concluding that his prior conviction was a crime of violence. According to him, Texas’s arson statute does not fall within the generic, contemporary meaning of arson because it proscribes the burning…
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