Legal Opinion
United States v. Ernesto Rivas-Gonzalez
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 22, 2004No. 03-30167PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOULD, Circuit Judge:
The United States appeals a decision of the district court to depart downward by eight levels in sentencing an alien who was charged with illegal reentry after having been previously removed. We have jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 1291 and we reverse.
I
Ernesto Rivas-Gonzalez (“Rivas”) is a forty-five year old Mexican national who first entered the United States illegally in 1979 at age twenty-one. On January 8, 1993, almost fifteen years after his first illegal entry, he was sentenced in state court in Yakima, Washington, to a prison term of one year and one day on a…
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3Cited by8 opinions
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