United States v. Lomeli

SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.

In 2004, Dino Lomeli, a citizen of Mexico, was arrested in Mexico and extradited to the United States to stand trial for murder in Texas state court and conspiracy in the Northern District of Iowa. After pleading guilty to the Texas murder charge, Lomeli pled guilty to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana and 500 grams or more of cocaine. The district court 1 sentenced Lomeli to 235 months imprisonment, to run consecutively to his Texas sentence. We affirm.

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Lomeli was charged with the 1997 murder of Amy McKeever in…