美国上诉法院维持了对一名被判犯有人口走私罪的男子的判决和判刑，该案件导致一个来自印度的四口之家在2022年试图穿越马尼托巴省与美国边境时冻死。
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.
今年早些时候，哈什库马尔·帕特尔（Harshkumar Patel）于2024年11月被明尼苏达州陪审团判定有罪后，要求法院推翻对他的定罪和判刑。
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.
帕特尔是印度国民，2024年在芝加哥被捕后被判处10年多一点监禁。
Patel, an Indian national, was sentenced to just over 10 years in prison after being arrested in Chicago in 2024.
他被发现协调了走私行动，并雇用了他的同案被告、佛罗里达州居民史蒂夫·尚德（Steve Shand），在移民从马尼托巴省越过边境到明尼苏达州后将他们驱赶。
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.
在周一公布的判决和意见中，美国第八巡回上诉法院维持了下级法院的判决，并认为有足够的证据支持陪审团的裁决。
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.
第二名男子要求法院推翻定罪，判决的情况下，家庭谁冻结附近马尼托巴省边境被定罪的人口走私者希望自我代表上诉，质疑律师的行为。一个由三名法官组成的小组发现帕特尔的论点挑战地区法院的指导方针计算“缺乏价值，”文件说。该小组表示，地方法院在适用量刑加重以造成重大死亡风险或导致死亡的罪行方面没有犯错误。
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 A panel of three judges found Patel's arguments challenging the district court's guidelines calculations "lack merit," the documents said. 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.
法院说，帕特尔无权为他的论点，即对他的指控是“双重和多重的”救济，因为他“未能保留这些问题的上诉。“人口走私者因在马尼托巴-美国边境造成家人‘难以想象’死亡而被判处10年、6年半监禁美国法院审理一名男子在马尼托巴边境被冻死后被判犯有人口走私罪的上诉。”它还发现帕特尔的论点，即他对其中两项罪名的定罪“相互矛盾”并没有提供救济的基础。
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.
2022年1月19日，39岁的贾格迪什·帕特尔（Jagdish Patel）、他37岁的妻子、女儿瓦伊沙利（Vaishali）、11岁的维汉吉（Vihangi）和三岁的儿子达米克（Dharmik）的冰冻尸体在距美国边境约12米的马尼托巴省一片积雪的田野中被发现。
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.
上诉法院法官小组定于本月晚些时候听取尚德律师的论点，尚德还要求上诉法院推翻对他的定罪和判刑。那次在明尼苏达州圣保罗出庭，定于10月23日举行。
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. That court appearance in St. Paul, Minn., is set for Oct. 23.
法院此前听取了哈什库马尔帕特尔，谁是没有关系的帕特尔家庭谁死了，很可能被驱逐到印度后，完成他的刑期。
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.