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U.S. v. MENDEZ-COLON

No. 93-1346.

15 F.3d 188 (1994)

UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Junior MENDEZ-COLON, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 19, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Maldonado Rodriguez, Asst. Federal Public Defender, with whom Benicio Sanchez Rivera, Federal Public Defender, Old San Juan, PR, was on brief for defendant, appellant.

Ernesto Hernandez-Milan, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Charles E. Fitzwilliam, U.S. Atty., and Joseph A. Quiles-Espinosa, Sr. Litigation Counsel, Hato Rey, PR, were on brief for appellee.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

BREYER, Chief Judge.

On October 30, 1992, the Coast Guard intercepted a wooden yawl taking 110 illegal aliens to Puerto Rico. A Border Patrol officer later recognized one of those aliens, defendant Junior Mendez Colon, as a convicted alien smuggler whom the United States had previously deported. Mendez subsequently pled guilty to the crime of unlawfully reentering the United States after being deported for conviction of a felony. 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1).

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