District court’s sentence of a defendant charged with illegal reentry from Mexico while in state custody on a domestic battery charge is vacated and remanded as the district court failed to address defendant’s concurrent-sentences argument, one of his principal arguments, that were not so weak as to not merit discussion. 

Read US v. Villegas-Miranda, No. 08-2308

Appellate Information

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.Argued May 7, 2009Decided August 27, 2009

Judges

Before Bauer, Flaum, and Williams, Circuit Judges Opinion by Williams,  Circuit Judge.

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