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Type
Opinion
Filed
April 8, 2019
Case
United States v. Mercedes Leon
Case status
Decided

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BOUDIN, Circuit Judge. On May 18, 2017, a Rhode Island federal grand jury charged José Mercedes Leon ("Mercedes"), a citizen of the Dominican Republic, with one count of illegal reentry of an alien who had previously been removed from the United States, 8 U.S.C. § 1326…

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