United States v. Higuera-Llamos

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an upward departure to 30 months from 15 to 21 months for illegal reentry was substantively reasonable because of the defendant’s prior illegal reentries and the failure of prior sentences to deter further reentries
• affirming upward departure from criminal history category IV to VI based on prior similar immigration violations that were not prosecuted, citing U.S.S.G. § 4A1.3(a)(2)(E)
• “The district court is to be given wide latitude when it balances the prejudicial effect of proffered evidence against its probative value.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The district court is to be given ‘wide latitude’ when it balances the prejudicial effect of proffered evidence against its probative value.”
• “The district court is to be given ‘wide latitude’ when it balances 2 The dissent makes similar arguments as McLeod on this issue. 6 the prejudicial effect of proffered evidence against its probative value.”
• describing the “wide latitude” afforded the district court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).