United States of America, Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Ibrahim Ahmad Suleiman, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant

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• noting that “a deportee by definition does not voluntarily leave the country” within the meaning of Rule 43(b)(2)
• explaining that “the purpose of the ‘in respect to’ enhancement is to treat more severely perjuries that risk an incomplete or an inaccurate investigation or trial of a criminal offense”
• refusing to vacate and remand for re-sentencing, where sentence enhancement warranted, because deported defendant could not be present for proceedings
• “The purpose of the ‘in respect to’ enhancement is to treat more severely perjuries that risk an incomplete or an inaccurate investigation or trial of a criminal offense.”
• “[A]s long as the witness has been alerted to the fact that the grand jury is investigating a criminal offense, false answers to material questions will almost always merit enhanced punishment.” (emphasis added)
• where the perjury about why the defendant traveled from Texas to Pakistan with another person was related to the bombing of a building, even though the statements were not about the defendant’s direct involvement in the World Trade Center bombing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).