USA V. JESUS YUGOPICIO-ROJAS, No. 18-50355 (9th Cir. 2019)
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FEB 27 2019 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS No. 18-50355 D.C. No. 3:18-cr-03202-LAB v. MEMORANDUM* JESUS YUGOPICIO-ROJAS, Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Larry A. Burns, Chief Judge, Presiding Submitted February 19, 2019** Before: FERNANDEZ, SILVERMAN, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges. Jesus Yugopicio-Rojas appeals from the district court’s judgment and challenges the 12-month term of imprisonment, three-year term of supervised release, and three conditions of supervised release imposed following his guiltyplea conviction for being a removed alien found in the United States, in violation * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm in part and remand in part with instructions. Yugopicio-Rojas contends that the district court abused its discretion by applying a two-level fast-track departure under U.S.S.G. § 5K3.1 instead of the parties’ requested four-level departure. We do not review the district court’s partial grant of the departure for procedural correctness, but rather as part of our review of the substantive reasonableness of the sentence. See United States v. Rosales-Gonzales, 801 F.3d 1177, 1180 (9th Cir. 2015).1 The district court did not abuse its discretion by imposing a two-level fast-track departure and a 12-month sentence, which is substantively reasonable in light of the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors and the totality of the circumstances, including YugopicioRojas’s prior drug trafficking conviction and multiple removals. See Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007). Yugopicio-Rojas also contends that the district court procedurally erred by failing to calculate the Guidelines range for the supervised release term and by 1 Contrary to Yugopicio-Rojas’s argument, Rosales-Gonzales is not “clearly irreconcilable” with Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016). See Miller v. Gammie, 335 F.3d 889, 900 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc). Thus, we remain bound by Rosales-Gonzales. To the extent Yugopicio-Rojas contends that the district court denied the four-level departure based on a blanket policy, the record belies this argument. The court properly declined to grant the full requested departure based on the particular circumstances of Yugopicio-Rojas’s case. See Rosales-Gonzales, 801 F.3d at 1183-84. 2 18-50355 insufficiently explaining its decision to impose a three-year term. We review for plain error, see United States v. Valencia-Barragan, 608 F.3d 1103, 1108 (9th Cir. 2010), and conclude that there is none. Yugopicio-Rojas has not shown a reasonable probability that he would have received a different sentence had the district court expressly calculated the applicable Guidelines range or more fully explained its decision to impose a three-year term. See United States v. Dallman, 533 F.3d 755, 762 (9th Cir. 2008). Finally, the government concedes, and we agree, that conditions 4, 7, and 8 in the written judgment conflict with the oral pronouncement of sentence, which did not include these now nonstandard conditions. See United States v. Napier, 463 F.3d 1040, 1042 (9th Cir. 2006). We thus remand and instruct the district court to strike conditions 4, 7, and 8 from the written judgment. See United States v. Hicks, 997 F.2d 594, 597 (9th Cir. 1993). AFFIRMED in part; REMANDED in part with instructions. 3 18-50355
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