Legal Opinion
United States v. Lopez-Macias
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 7, 2011No. 10-1494PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
In the 1990s, federal prosecutors handling large numbers of illegal re-entry and other immigration offenses developed early disposition or “fast-track” programs in states along the United States border with Mexico. In 2003, Congress endorsed such programs, apparently for border districts and elsewhere, in a broadly-worded provi sion of the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today Act (“PROTECT Act”). Pub.L. No. 108-21, 117 Stat. 650 (2003). Congress specifically instructed the United States Sentencing Commission to promulgate “a…
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