U.S. v. RODRIGUEZ-VEGA

No. 13-56415.

797 F.3d 781 (2015)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Elizabeth RODRIGUEZ-VEGA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 14, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Doug Keller (argued), Federal Defenders of San Diego, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Julia A. Cline (argued), Special Assistant United States Attorney; Bruce R. Castetter , Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Division; Laura E. Duffy , United States Attorney, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Rebecca Sharpless , Immigration Clinic, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, FL; Sejal Zota , National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA; Jeffrey L. Fisher , NACDL Amicus Committee, Stanford, CA; Manual D. Vargas and Dawn Seibert , Immigrant Defense Project, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Association for Public Defense, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Immigrant Defense Project, and Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, FERDINAND F. FERNANDEZ, and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Elizabeth Rodriguez-Vega appeals the magistrate judge's denial of her 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition1 to vacate her conviction of misdemeanor Attempted Transportation of Illegal Aliens in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2)(A). She asserts that she was deprived of effective...

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