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Parties Involved:
Hilario Marin Pereda-Carrera
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

FILED 

United States Co~rt <?f Appeals Tenth C1rcu1t 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS QCT 2 2 1991 

FOR THE TEN'l'II CIRCUIT ROBERT L. HOECKER 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, 

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HILARIO MARIN PEREDA-CARRERA, 

Defendant-Appellant. 

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No. 91-2124 

(D.C. No. CR-91-43-JC) 

(D. New Mexico) 

ORDER ARD JUDGMENT* 

Before LOGAN, MOORE, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

This is a direct appeal from the imposition of a sentence of 

eighteen months upon a plea of guilty to one count of transporting 

illegal aliens in violation of 8 u.s.c. S 1324(a)(l)(B). The case 

has been submitted on the briefs by the parties. 

Defendant's only argument is that the inclusion of his prior 

conviction for the same crime in the determination of his offense 

level and criminal history category, coupled with the sentence at 

the top of the guideline range, is an improper application of the 

*This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel . . 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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guidelines resulting in a "multiple counting." Defendant makes 

this contention despite our previous rejection of the same 

argument in United States v. Florentino, 922 F.2d 1443 (10th Cir. 

1990) . Defendant's failure to distinguish, or even cite, 

Florentino makes the argument specious and the appeal meritless. 

AFFIRMED. 

Entered for the Court 

John P. Moore 

Circuit Judge 

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