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The Case of the Law Abiding Illegal Re-Entrant

By harlanprotass

United States v. Cowan, No. 09-CR-261 (JBW), 2010 WL 694098 (E.D.N.Y. Feb. 18, 2010)Cowan pled guilty to an illegal re-entry charge, for which he faced an advisory Guidelines range of imprisonment of between 41 and 51 months.  Cowan was sentenced principally to time served (we do not know how long that was).  Why?Defendant, a citizen of Jamaica, was deported in 1991 after serving a term of imprisonment for conviction of a narcotics offense, which was committed when defendant was twenty-one years old. He illegally re-entered this country in 1997, to provide care for his ailing mother. Since that time, and until his arrest in March 2009 for driving without a license, he has lived and worked here without incident. He has been a law-abiding resident of this county...continue to full post

Full post as published by Second Circuit Sentencing Blog on March 07, 2010 (boomark / email).