United States v. Edgar Gomez

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that unlawful entry is an act \no different than any other recent prior illegal act of any defendant being sentenced for any offense\
• commenting that, “far from being a constitutional violation,” the trial court’s statement that it “hope[d] that the sentence imposed would serve as a deterrent to others who might contemplate following in” defendant’s footsteps was “well stated”
• “[T]he sentencing judge [need not] shut his eyes to the reality of the factual situation before him and pretend that the defendant is not an illegal alien.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).