United States v. Salvador Leos-Maldonado

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an alien can be guilty of attempted entry even if he is under official restraint throughout his crossing of the U.S. border
• stating that relief is not warranted under the plain error standard unless there has been error, which is plain, affects substantial rights, and seriously affects “the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings”
• distinguishing between fact of official restraint and intent, and holding that the former is not required for attempted illegal reentry but the latter is
• affirming attempted illegal-reentry conviction where, “[t]wo months after being deported 28 to Mexico, [the defendant], along with six other Mexican nationals, climbed the fence along the international border”
• “The evidence shows that [the defendant] scaled the international border wall, crouching down to avoid detection after landing on American soil.”
• “The evidence shows that [the defendant] scaled the international border wall, crouching down to avoid detection after landing on American soil.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).