Legal Opinion
United States v. Jorge Mejia
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 22, 2006No. Docket 05-3903-crPublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS JACOBS, Circuit Judge.
Jorge Mejia challenges the 37-month sentence imposed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Keenan, J.) following his plea of guilty to illegal reentry after deportation for an aggravated felony, in violation of 8 U.S.C. §§ 1326(a) and (b)(2). Mejia contends that the court erred in declining to reduce his sentence to account for the lesser sentence he presumably would have received in one of the thirteen districts that use a “fast-track” or “early disposition” program, which allows a defendant charged with illegal reentry to…
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