USA v. Carlos Antonil Villanueva-Almendarez, No. 11-14356 (11th Cir. 2012)
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[DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FILED ________________________ U.S. COURT OF APPEALS No. 11-14356 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ ELEVENTH CIRCUIT MARCH 9, 2012 JOHN LEY CLERK D.C. Docket No. 1:07-cr-00005-RWS-LTW-1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus CARLOS ANTONIL VILLANUEVA-ALMENDAREZ, Defendant-Appellant. __________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia _________________________ (March 9, 2012) Before HULL, PRYOR and BLACK, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Carlos Antonil Villanueva-Almendarez appeals his sentence of 12 months of imprisonment following the revocation of his supervised release. 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3). Villanueva-Almendarez argues that his sentence is substantively unreasonable. We affirm. The district court did not abuse its discretion. Villaneuva-Almendez, a native and citizen of Honduras, was deported from the United States in January 1997, September 1999, March 2000, and January 2006, and during that time he accumulated five convictions in the courts of Georgia and Florida for offenses, including criminal damage to property, burglary, and shoplifting. In October 2006, authorities arrested Villaneuva-Almendez in Georgia, and he later pleaded guilty to reentering the United States illegally and received a sentence of 33 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. In 2010, Villaneuva-Almendez again reentered the United States illegally, and after he was sentenced to a term of 51 months of imprisonment, the government moved to revoke his supervised release. In response to Villanueva-Almendez s request for leniency, the district court explained that it shared the frustrations [of others] . . . that [Villanueva-Almendez] continues to return to the United States despite warnings that another illegal reentry would be a serious offense for which he could serve significant time. The district court considered the sentencing factors, 2 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), and reasonably determined that a sentence of 12 months of imprisonment consecutive to Villaneuva-Almendarez s sentence of 51 months of imprisonment for his illegal reentry was needed in order to enforce [the] Court s sentences and orders as well as to impress upon . . . and hopefully deter him from future similar conduct. Villaneuva-Almendarez s sentence to a term well below the advisory guideline range is reasonable. We AFFIRM Villanueva-Almendarez s sentence. 3
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