United States v. Santos Hernan Rivera-Ventura

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a § 1326 violation is \ordinarily complete as soon as the entry or attempt is made\
• noting that a § 1326 violation is “ordinarily complete as soon as the entry or attempt is made”
• observing that “[t]he offense of being ‘found in’ the United States ... depends not only on the conduct of the alien but also on acts and knowledge of the federal authorities”
• offense is not complete until federal authorities locate alien in United States and have knowledge of the illegality of his presence
• “The limitations period will normally begin to run when a crime is ‘complete,’ thereby ‘encouraging law enforcement officials promptly to investigate suspected criminal activity.’” (citation omitted)
• the statute of limitations begins when “the authorities know, or with the exercise of diligence typical of law enforcement authorities, could have discovered the illegality of his presence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).