Legal Opinion
United States v. Jose Fuentes
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 25, 1997No. 94-4916PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, Jose Fuentes challenges the sentence he received in the district court, following a plea of guilty, for conspiring to run a “chop shop” operation. 1 Pursuant to this operation, Fuentes had stolen several Porsche automobiles, had taken them to different locations where he removed many of their parts, and after removing or altering the parts’ vehicle identification numbers (“VINs”), had sold the parts to customers throughout the country. Prior to this federal prosecution, Fuentes had been convicted in state court for some of this activity, and at the time…
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