United States v. Jorge Compres-Paulino

The question posed to us on this appeal is the significance to United States Sentencing Guideline § 2L1.2(b)(l) of a deportation and an illegal reentry that intervene between conviction for a drug trafficking crime punished by a sentence of parole and a later revocation of that parole followed by assignment of a prison term exceeding thirteen months. While nominally a novel issue for this Circuit, we find that our decisions in United States v. Leiva-Deras, 359 F.3d 183 (2d Cir.2004), and United States v. Huerta-Moran, 352 F.3d 766 (2d Cir.2003), support affirmance of the District Court’s…