Legal Opinion
United States v. Ramos-Paulino
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 23, 2007No. 06-1880PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this criminal appeal, the defendant challenges both her conviction (on the ground of instructional error) and her sentence (on the ground of a guidelines-related error). After a thorough review of the record and the applicable law, we affirm the defendant’s conviction but vacate her sentence. The tale follows.
We begin with the denouement. In April of 2005, a federal grand jury charged defendant-appellant Altagracia Ramos-Paulino with attempted transport and concealment of illegal aliens, see 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1), and trafficking in false identification…
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