Legal Opinion
United States v. Huizar
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 27, 2012No. 11-6270PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
When Alfredo Huizar pleaded guilty to reentering the United States illegally after an earlier deportation, the district court began the business of settling on a sentence. As these things go, the court started by trying to get a fix on the appropriate advisory guidelines range. And as part of that effort the district court held Mr. Huizar’s 1995 California conviction for residential burglary qualified as a “crime of violence,” triggering a sixteen-level enhancement. The court then proceeded to craft its own sentence relying on and incorporating that enhancement. On…
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