Financial gain in smuggling
Rosezzettea Lee Lopez v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Rosezzettea Lee Lopez challenged her conviction for transporting undocumented people for private financial gain, arguing that prior paid transports and general smuggling evidence did not show a payment arrangement for the four people in her case.
- Who it affects
- The Court did not decide whether the evidence against Lopez met the private-financial-gain requirement.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear her request for review (denied review) and did not decide whether that evidence met the law’s requirement.
The dispute concerned what evidence could show a private financial purpose in a federal transportation offense.
Question presented
May § 1324(a)(1)(B)(i)’s private -financial-gain element be satisfied by evidence of prior paid transports and generalized smuggling-pattern evidence, without proof of a payment arrangement concerning the persons actually transported?
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