son. The government presented evidence that A.G. shared his father’s name and that officers informed A.G. that his father, Juarez-Gomez, had been arrested at the time of the search. At trial, Juarez-Gomez objected to a line of questioning revealing that A.G. shared his fat 1287 (8th Cir. 2006) (vacating a sentence as unreasonable and remanding for resentencing when a district court judge considered the defendant’s impending deportation as a mitigating factor and that defendant had repeatedly entered the country illegally); see also United States v. Flores-Olague, 717 F.3d 526, 535 (7th Cir. 2013) (affirming the sentencing court's consideration of defendant's status as a deportable alien as an aggravating factor under § 3553(a)); United States v. Petrus, 588 F.3d 347, 356 (6th Cir.2009) (<HOLDING>). And several more circuits, including this
holding that the trial court did not err in using the particularized factual circumstances of the case namely the victims age  as an aggravating factor recognizing attorneys substantial experience in the practice of law as an aggravating factor holding that a trial court must not preclude the jury from considering any aspect of the defendants character or circumstances as a mitigating factor holding that dependent upon the circumstances of the case a defendants deportability could be viewed as either a mitigating or an aggravating factor holding that sentencing scheme that permitted a limited range of mitigating evidence was unconstitutional because the eighth and fourteenth amendments require that the sentencer  not be precluded from considering as a mitigating factor any aspect of a defendants character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death