Criminal Law : Sentencing – Illegal Reentry

Where a defendant challenged his 10-year sentence for illegally reentering the country, the district court did not ignore the mitigating circumstances that the defendant presented, and he did not show that the sentence was substantively unreasonable.

Judgment is affirmed.

U.S. v. Hernandez-Pineda (MLW No. 70246/Case No. 16-1004 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8^th Circuit, Riley, J.) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa, Bennett, J. (Bradley Ryan Hansen, Sioux City, Iowa, argued for appellant) (Kevin Craig Fletcher, Sioux City, Iowa, argued for appellee).

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