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Criminal Law-Illegal Reentry-Within-Guidelines Sentence-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence
Staff Report//May 13, 2026//
Criminal Law-Illegal Reentry-Within-Guidelines Sentence-Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence
Staff Report//May 13, 2026//
Defendant challenged the substantive reasonableness of the within-Guidelines sentence imposed following his guilty plea to illegal reentry
Where the district court did not abuse its discretion in sentencing defendant, the court upheld the sentence.
Judgment is affirmed.
U.S. v. Rojas (MLW No. 84754/Case No. 25-3427 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa, Locher, J.
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