Legal Opinion
United States v. Ramirez
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 20, 2011No. 09-3932, 10-2190, 10-2689PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
We have consolidated these appeals to answer a recurring question: What evidentiary showing must a defendant charged with being found in the United States after previously having been deported, 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), make before a district court is obliged to consider his request for a lower sentence to account for the absence of a fast-track program in that judicial district? The question has been percolating since we decided United States v. Reyes-Hernandez, 624 F.3d 405, 417, 420 (7th Cir.2010), which permits sentencing courts to compensate for fast-track disparities but…
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