U.S. v. HEREDIA

No. 12-50331.

768 F.3d 1220 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Paul Gabriel Morales HEREDIA, aka Alejandro Montada Heredia, aka Alejandro Montada, aka Paul Gabriel Morales, aka Paul Heredia Morales, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 8, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean K. Kennedy, Federal Public Defender, Jonathan D. Libby (argued), Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.

André Birotte Jr., United States Attorney, Robert E. Dugdale, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Criminal Division, L. Ashley Aull (argued), Assistant United States Attorney, Nathaniel B. Walker, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

WARDLAW, Circuit Judge.

Every day along the southwest border, previously deported aliens lacking entry documents are arrested, detained, and charged with illegal reentry. Once convicted, they serve a term of imprisonment, and then are again deported. The numbers are so great that federal prosecutors in these border states began to resort to an efficient means of securing a conviction: a "fast-track" plea agreement that binds the government and the...

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