Legal Opinion

United States v. Vargas-Garcia

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided December 22, 2005No. 05-10474PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KING, Chief Judge:

Arturo Vargas-Garcia, the defendant-appellant in this matter, appeals from the sentence imposed by the district court. We AFFIRM.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On October 12, 2004, Arturo Vargas-Garcia was arrested in Dallas by special agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Vargas-Garcia, a citizen of Mexico, had been indicted on October 5, 2004, and charged with one count of illegal reentry after removal from the United States, 1 in violation of, inter alia, 8 U.S.C. § 1326. Specifically, Vargas-Garcia was charged with being “found in the United…

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3Cited by23 opinions

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