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Summary: ORDER ACCEPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING GUILTY PLEA DONALD E. O'BRIEN, Senior Judge. I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Before the Court is Magistrate Judge Leonard T. Strand's Report and Recommendation Concerning Guilty Plea (Docket No. 11). On December 18, 2014, a one count Indictment (Docket No. 2) was filed in the above-referenced case. On January 6, 2015, Defendant Julio Rodriguez-Segoviano entered a guilty plea to Count 1 of the Indictment before United States Magistrate Judge
Summary: ORDER ACCEPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING GUILTY PLEA DONALD E. O'BRIEN, Senior Judge. I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Before the Court is Magistrate Judge Leonard T. Strand's Report and Recommendation Concerning Guilty Plea (Docket No. 11). On December 18, 2014, a one count Indictment (Docket No. 2) was filed in the above-referenced case. On January 6, 2015, Defendant Julio Rodriguez-Segoviano entered a guilty plea to Count 1 of the Indictment before United States Magistrate Judge ..
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ORDER ACCEPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING GUILTY PLEA
DONALD E. O'BRIEN, Senior Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
Before the Court is Magistrate Judge Leonard T. Strand's Report and Recommendation Concerning Guilty Plea (Docket No. 11).
On December 18, 2014, a one count Indictment (Docket No. 2) was filed in the above-referenced case. On January 6, 2015, Defendant Julio Rodriguez-Segoviano entered a guilty plea to Count 1 of the Indictment before United States Magistrate Judge Leonard T. Strand.
Count 1 of the Indictment charges that on or about November 18, 2014, in the Northern District of Iowa, defendant Julio Rodriguez-Segoviano, an alien citizen of Mexico, was found knowingly and unlawfully in the United States after having been previously removed from the United States to Mexico on or about October 31, 2012. Defendant did not obtain the express consent of the Attorney General of the United States or his successor, the Secretary for Homeland Security (Title 6, United States Code, Section 202(3) and (4) and Section 557), to reapply for admission into the United States prior to reentering the United States after October 31, 2012, on an unknown date at an unknown location.
Defendant's removal was subsequent to a conviction for an aggravated felony offense, to wit:
On or about February 7, 2012, Julio Rodriguez-Segoviano was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in the Iowa District Court for Buena Vista County.
This was in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Sections 1326(a) and (b)(2).
The Report and Recommendation (Docket No. 11), states that there is no plea agreement and recommends that defendant Julio Rodriguez-Segoviano's guilty plea be accepted. Waivers of objections to Judge Strand's Report and Recommendation were filed by each party (Docket Nos. 12 and 13). The Court, therefore, undertakes the necessary review to accept defendant Julio Rodriguez-Segoviano's guilty plea in this case.
II. ANALYSIS
A. Standard of Review
Pursuant to statue, this Court's standard of review for a magistrate judge's Report and Recommendation is as follows:
A judge of the court shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made. A judge of the court may accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate [judge].
28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1). Similarly, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(b) provides for review of a magistrate judge's Report and Recommendation on dispositive motions and prisoner petitions, where objections are made as follows:
The district judge to whom the case is assigned shall make a de novo determination upon the record, or after additional evidence, of any portion of the magistrate judge's disposition to which specific written objection has been made in accordance with this rule. The district judge may accept, reject, or modify the recommendation decision, receive further evidence, or recommit the matter to the magistrate judge with instructions.
FED. R. CIV. P. 72(b).
As mentioned, waivers of objections to the Report and Recommendation have been filed, and it appears to the Court upon review of Magistrate Judge Strand's findings and conclusions that there are no grounds to reject or modify them.
IT IS THEREFORE HEREBY ORDERED that this Court accepts Magistrate Judge Strand's Report and Recommendation (Docket No. 11), and accepts defendant Julio Rodriguez-Segoviano's plea of guilty in this case to Count 1 of the Indictment (Docket No. 2).
IT IS SO ORDERED.
