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Recent Decisions, Robert L. Morgan, Sybil C. Peyer
Recent Decisions, Robert L. Morgan, Sybil C. Peyer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
TREATY ON THE EXECUTION OF PENAL SENTENCES--Federal Court is not Precluded from Using Mexican Conviction as Evidence of Prior Conduct in Enhancing Subsequent Sentence, United States v. Fleishman, 684 F.2d1329 (9th Cir. 1982).
The instant decision examines for the first time two significant issues surrounding the repatriation of United States prisoners from Mexico under TEPS: the legality of prisoner challenges to the collateral effects of a Mexican conviction and the use of a Mexican conviction to enhance a subsequent sentence. By refusing to extend the Rosado holding to preclude "collateral effects" challenges, the instant court wisely recognized the importance of …