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By: Derek Hawkins//March 28, 2017//
Listen to this article7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Vincente A. Jimines
Case No.: 16-3191
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, FLAUM, Circuit Judge, and CONLEY, Chief District Judge
Focus: Sentencing
After pleading guilty to three federal drug and money‐laundering offenses, Vincente Jimenes was sentenced to 151 months’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release. In this appeal, he contends that his constitutional rights were violated by the use, for Sentencing Guide‐ lines purposes, of a state misdemeanor conviction that was obtained without the use of a Spanish interpreter. The district court reviewed the record of the conviction and was satisfied that enough informal translation took place to support a conclusion that his guilty plea was knowing. It did not need to go that far, however, because this was not the time nor place for a collateral attack on that conviction. We therefore affirm Jimenes’s sentence.
Affirmed
Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.
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