U.S. v. MEZA

No. 09-40793.

620 F.3d 505 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Noemi MEZA, also known as Noemi Bermudez-Meza, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 20, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Richard Berry , James Lee Turner , Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Marjorie A. Meyers , Fed. Pub. Def., Laura Fletcher Leavitt , Molly Estelle Odom, Asst. Fed. Pub. Defenders, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before STEWART, PRADO and ELROD, Circuit Judges.


CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-Appellant Noemi Meza ("Meza") brings this appeal challenging the jurisdiction of the district court to impose a criminal sentence. Meza has been twice arrested for immigrant-trafficking. After allocution and at her most-recent sentencing, Meza faced a prison term for each of two counts—a new substantive charge and sentencing on the revocation of supervised release. The district court announced a sentence of a combined...

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