United States v. Medel-Guadalupe, No. 19-40901 (5th Cir. 2021)
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The Fifth Circuit withdrew its prior opinion and substituted the following opinion.
The court affirmed defendant's 120-month sentence for harboring an illegal alien. The court held that defendant waived his duplicity argument by pleading guilty; even if the district court erroneously applied the reckless endangerment and bodily injury sentencing enhancements, the errors were harmless; defendant's contention that the district court impermissibly delegated judicial authority through the wording of two special conditions of supervised release, the required alcohol and drug treatment, fails under either plain error or de novo review; and defendant's sentence was within the Guidelines and he fails to demonstrate that an explanation of the revocation sentence would have changed his sentence.
This opinion or order relates to an opinion or order originally issued on October 27, 2020.
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