The decision of the Court of Appeals and the judgment of
the circuit court are affirmed.
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* Appeal from Yamhill County Circuit Court, Ronald W. Stone, Judge. Order
of Summary Affirmance, May 6, 2014.
554 Verduzco v. State of Oregon
Case Summary: Petitioner filed for post-conviction relief, claiming that his
trial counsel provided inadequate assistance unde... More...   $0 (08-04-2015 - )

Gonzalez immigrated to the United States as a teenager and later became a legal permanent resident. In 2003 he pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a), (b)(1)(D). He received a sentence of 15 months in prison.
UNITED STATES V. GONZALEZ-CORN 5 After his conviction, the government initiated removal proceedings ... More...   $0 (07-19-2015 - )

New Orleans, LA - EUELIO MARQUEZ-CHACON, age 40, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.

U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier sentenced MARQUEZ-CHACON to time served months imprisonment followed by 1 year of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.

MARQUEZ-CHACON will be surre... More...   $0 (06-25-2015 - LA)

Defendant, Mauro Edulio
Jiménez-Banegas ("Jiménez"), pleaded guilty to illegal reentry into
the United States pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1326. At sentencing, the
district court determined that the applicable statutory maximum
imprisonment sentence was twenty years under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2)
because Jiménez had illegally reentered the United States
subsequent to deportatio... More...   $0 (06-24-2015 - ME)

In this case, we must determine
whether the Supreme Court's description of deportation in Padilla
v. Kentucky as "an integral part . . . of the penalty that may be
imposed on noncitizen defendants who plead guilty to specified
crimes," 559 U.S. 356, 364 (2010), has altered the longstanding
notion that removal is non-punitive and thus does not implicate
the Eighth Amendment'... More...   $0 (06-24-2015 - MA)

Harnessing nuclear energy is a delicate business. So is the statute before
us. Originally passed in the 1950s in an era captivated by the promise of nuclear
power and amended in the 1980s in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island
meltdown when prevailing public sentiment was perhaps less sanguine, the Price-
Anderson Act seeks both to promote the private nuclear energy industry and... More...   $0 (06-23-2015 - CO)

This is the second appeal to come before us involving a sentence imposed on
Jesus Rosales-Bruno because of his conviction for illegally reentering the United
States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. In the first appeal we vacated his original
sentence after concluding the district court had erred in finding that his prior
Florida conviction for false imprisonment qualified as a “... More...   $0 (06-19-2015 - FL)

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – McQuade Quintana, 28, of Dulce, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and U.S. Marshall Conrad E. Candelaria.

SORNA, also known as the Adam Walsh Protection and Safety Act, requires that a convicted sex offende... More...   $0 (06-18-2015 - NM)

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Crystal Staggs, 53, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 63 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for her Oxycodone trafficking conviction.

Staggs was arrested on Aug. 28, 2012, on a criminal complaint charging her with distributing and attempting to distribute Oxycodone to an undercover DEA agent on four occasi... More...   $0 (06-11-2015 - NM)

New Orleans, LA - Sergio Tulio Vargas-Vargas, age 25, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.

U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey sentenced Vargas-Vargas to time served and a $100 special assessment. Vargas-Vargas will be surrendered to the custody of the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforce... More...   $0 (06-04-2015 - LA)

ALBUQUERQUE – Hunter Dwayne Fitzgerald, Jr., 22, of Los Angeles, Calif., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a heroin trafficking charge.

Fitzgerald was arrested on April 11, 2014, at the Amtrak Train Station in Albuquerque after DEA agents found almost a pound and a half of heroin concealed in her baggage during an interdiction investigation. Fitzgerald was ... More...   $0 (05-20-2015 - NM)

New Orleans, LA - ANTONIO CAICEO-VALENCIA, age 42, a citizen of Columbia, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.

U.S. District Judge Helen G. Berrigan sentenced CAICEO-VALENCIA to 30 months imprisonment followed by 3 year of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Upon completion of his sentence, CAICEO... More...   $0 (05-06-2015 - LA)

Defendant Marcos Estrada-Mederos pled guilty to illegal reentry for being found in the United States after having been previously deported following conviction for an aggravated felony. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326. He was given a within-guideline sentence
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of 57 months in prison. He appeals his sentence, chal-lenging the district court’s failure to address his principal arguments f... More...   $0 (04-29-2015 - IL)

ALBUQUERQUE – Two Arizona men and a Mexican national illegally in the United States were sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws.

Jonathan Gordon Marsh, 28, of Gilbert, Ariz., and Jason Daniel Smith, 27, of Apache Junction, Ariz., were sentenced based on their guilty pleas to marijuana trafficking and firearms charges. ... More...   $0 (04-23-2015 - NM)

We consider in this case whether, consistent with
Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), a
sentencing court conducting the modified categorical
approach may rely on a defense attorney’s statement of the
factual basis for a guilty plea and use the process of
elimination to determine which subsection of a divisible
statute the defendant pleaded guilty to violati... More...   $0 (04-10-2015 - AZ)

Defendant Jesus Rios-Zamora seeks a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal
the district court’s denial of his motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2225. See 28 U.S.C.
2255(c)(1)(B) (requiring a COA to appeal denial of a § 2255 motion). We deny a COA
and dismiss the appeal.
Defendant pleaded guilty to illegal reentry following deportation after a conviction
for an aggra... More...   $0 (04-10-2015 - KS)

Defendant Pedro Julian Montoya-Gonzalez pleaded guilty in the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma to the charge of reentry of a
deported alien in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. He was sentenced to 46 months’
imprisonment. After our dismissal of his appeal for failure to prosecute, he filed a pro se
motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, claiming... More...   $0 (04-10-2015 - OK)

U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC SAMUEL MOTINO-ALVAREZ, age 26, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.

According to the Indictment, on or about January 29, 2015, MOTINO-ALVAREZ was found in the United States after having been officially deported and removed on or about October 2, 2009.

MOTINO-... More...   $0 (03-25-2015 - LA)

Alvaro Cuevas-Bravo pleaded guilty to being a previously deported alien
illegally found in the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). The
district court sentenced Cuevas-Bravo to forty-six months’ imprisonment, a term
eleven months below the bottom of the advisory range set out in the United States
Sentencing Guidelines. Cuevas-Bravo appeals, asserting the sentence i... More...   $0 (03-16-2015 - OK)

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Curtis Wallace Pack, Jr., 31, of San Diego, Calif., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his heroin trafficking conviction.

Pack was arrested on Sept. 12, 2013, at the Greyhound Bus Station in Albuquerque, N.M., after a consensual search by DEA agents revealed that Pack ha... More...   $0 (03-11-2015 - NM)

Las Cruces, NM – Anthony Calderon, 40, of Las Cruces, N.M., pleaded guilty to heroin and methamphetamine trafficking charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Calderon will be sentenced to a prison term in the range of 24 to 36 months.

Calderon was arrested on Aug. 8, 2014, in Las Cruces on an indictment charging him with two counts of distributing heroin and one count of distrib... More...   $0 (03-05-2015 - NM)

Las Cruces, NM - Patrick Gonzalez, 39, of Las Cruces, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court to heroin trafficking and firearms charges under a plea agreement that requires him to serve an 18-year federal prison sentence followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.

Lead defendant Jovita Belmonte-Gonzalez, 43, a Mexican national from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexi... More...   $0 (02-17-2015 - NM)

Madison, WI - Juan Manuel Larios-Buentello, 50, a citizen of Mexico found in New Richmond, Wis., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 36 months in prison for illegal reentry after deportation. Larios-Buentello pleaded guilty to the charge on November 25, 2014.

Larios-Buentello was previously deported or removed from the United States multiple times, with his last r... More...   $0 (02-12-2015 - WI)

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Paul Anthony Diaz, 48, of Desert Hot Springs, Calif., was sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his heroin trafficking conviction.

Diaz was arrested on Feb. 11, 2014, at the Amtrak train station in Albuquerque after a consensual search of Diaz by DEA agents revealed that Diaz had concealed bundles containing more than one ki... More...   $0 (02-12-2015 - NM)

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Martin Pelayo, 39, of Colorado Springs, Colo., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to a heroin trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Pelayo was arrested on Sept. 29, 2014, at the Greyhound Bus Station in Albuquerque, N.M., after a consensual search of his baggage by DEA agents revealed that he was carrying more than a kil... More...   $0 (02-03-2015 - NM)