U.S. v. RIVERA

No. 14-40389.

784 F.3d 1012 (2015)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sandra RIVERA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 29, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eileen K. Wilson, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Renata Arm Gowie, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Marjorie A. Meyers, Federal Public Defender, Margaret Christina Ling, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Scott Andrew Martin, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender's Office, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and KING and ELROD, Circuit Judges.


Sandra Rivera violated the conditions of her supervised release. The district court rejected the within-Guidelines recommendation of the magistrate judge and departed upward, imposing the five-year maximum revocation sentence. Rivera timely appealed her revocation sentence, arguing that the district court relied...

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