U.S. v. ZUNIGA-PERALTA

No. 04-50575.

442 F.3d 345 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dario ZUNIGA-PERALTA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 6, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Donna F. Coltharp, Lucien B. Campbell, Federal Public Defender, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and DeMOSS and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.


EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:

Dario Zuniga-Peralta pled guilty to illegal reentry into the United States after deportation and was sentenced, after an upward departure, to sixty months in prison. Zuniga-Peralta now appeals his sentence, arguing that the extent of the district court's upward departure under the Sentencing Guidelines was unreasonable, and the court's written statement of reasons failed to provide specific reasons explaining why the applicable criminal...

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