Legal Opinion
United States v. Munoz-Ortenza
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 18, 2009No. 07-51344PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JENNIFER W. ELROD, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-Appellant Ernesto MunozOrtenza pleaded guilty to illegal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326, and appeals his sentence of forty-one months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release based in part on a sixteen-level enhancement that resulted from Munoz-Ortenza’s previous criminal conviction in California for oral copulation of a minor. We vacate and remand for resentencing.
I. BACKGROUND
On August 16, 2007, Munoz-Ortenza pleaded guilty to a single-count indictment for illegal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) as enhanced by §…
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