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Human smuggling conviction upheld in death of Indian family at Manitoba-U.S. border
Arguments 'lack merit,' evidence was sufficient to support guilty verdict: ruling
A U.S. appeals court has upheld the verdict and sentence for one of the men found guilty of human smuggling in a case that led to a family of four from India freezing to death while attempting to cross the Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022.
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family → uphold → 2022
Earlier this year, Harshkumar Patel asked the court to overturn his conviction and sentence after being found guilty by a Minnesota jury in November 2024.
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Patel → ask → November
Patel, an Indian national, was sentenced to just over 10 years in prison after being arrested in Chicago in 2024.
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Patel → sentence → 2024
He was found to have co-ordinated the smuggling operation and hired his co-accused, Florida resident Steve Shand, to drive the migrants once they had crossed the border from Manitoba to Minnesota.
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they → find → Minnesota
In a judgment and opinion posted Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the lower court's sentencing decision, and found there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict.
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2nd man asks court to overturn convictions, sentence in case of family who froze near Manitoba border
Convicted human smuggler wants to self-represent in appeal, questions lawyer's conduct
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A panel of three judges found Patel's arguments challenging the district court's guidelines calculations "lack merit," the documents said.
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The panel said the district court did not make errors in applying sentencing enhancements for creating a substantial risk of death or for the offence resulting in death.
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The court said Patel is not entitled to relief for his arguments that the charges against him were "duplicitious and multiplicitous," because he "failed to preserve these issues for appeal."
Human smugglers get 10 years, 6½ years for roles in 'unimaginable' deaths of family at Manitoba-U.S. border
U.S. court to hear appeal from man convicted of human smuggling after family froze to death at Manitoba border
It also found Patel's arguments that his convictions on two of the counts were "mutually inconsistent" did not provide a basis for relief.
The frozen bodies of Jagdish Patel, 39, his wife, 37, Vaishali, their daughter, Vihangi,11, and Dharmik, their three-year-old son, were found in a snow-drifted Manitoba field about 12 metres from the U.S. border on Jan. 19, 2022.
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A photo posted to Facebook in 2019 shows the Patel family: from left, Jagdish, 39, Dharmik, 3, Vihangi, 11, and Vaishali, 37.
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They were found frozen to death near the U.S. border in Manitoba on Jan. 19, 2022.
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A panel of appeals court judges is scheduled to hear arguments later this month from a lawyer for Shand, who has also asked the appeal court to overturn his conviction and sentence.
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who → schedule → conviction
That court appearance in St. Paul, Minn., is set for Oct. 23.
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Court previously heard Harshkumar Patel, who is not related to the Patel family who died, is likely to be deported to India after completing his sentence.
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