United States v. Barbara Lynn Lewis

An indictment was filed against Barbara Lynn Lewis (“Lewis”) on October 7, 1998, charging her with two counts of harboring an illegal alien and one count of conspiracy to do the same. Lewis entered a guilty plea on all three counts. The district court sentenced Lewis to 120 months, comprised of consecutive sentences of forty-six months, thirty-seven months, and thirty-seven months. 1 On appeal, Lewis argues that the sentencing court erred in four ways: first, by imposing consecutive rather than concurrent sentences; second, by refusing a three-point reduction for the crimes being “other than…