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U.S. v. Leal-Felix, No. 09-50426 (9th Cir.) (625 F.3d 1118) (November 11, 2010) (Judge Alfred T. Goodwin)

Loaded on Jan. 24, 2011 published in Punch and Jurists January 24, 2011
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This is one of those supremely silly (but highly entertaining) Guidelines’ decisions in which grown-up judges actually took some 8,000 words to debate whether a traffic “citation” constitutes an “arrest” within the meaning of the pre-2007 version of U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(a)(2), for the purpose of calculating the defendant’s correct criminal ...

 

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