United States v. Davier Diaz ( 2017 )


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  •            Case: 16-10349   Date Filed: 04/10/2017   Page: 1 of 2
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    IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
    FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
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    No. 16-10349
    Non-Argument Calendar
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    D.C. Docket No. 1:15-cr-20693-UU-1
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
    Plaintiff-Appellee,
    versus
    DAVIER DIAZ,
    Defendant-Appellant.
    ________________________
    Appeal from the United States District Court
    for the Southern District of Florida
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    (April 10, 2017)
    Before MARCUS, WILLIAM PRYOR and FAY, Circuit Judges.
    PER CURIAM:
    Case: 16-10349     Date Filed: 04/10/2017   Page: 2 of 2
    Davier Diaz appeals his sentence of imprisonment for 80 months following
    his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).
    Diaz contends that the district court erred in calculating his sentencing range when
    it relied on the residual clause of section 4B1.2(a) of the Sentencing Guidelines to
    conclude that his prior convictions in Florida of burglary of an unoccupied
    dwelling qualified as crimes of violence. He argues that the residual clause of
    section 4B1.2(a)(2) is unconstitutionally vague. We affirm.
    The district court committed no error. Diaz’s argument is foreclosed by the
    recent decision of the Supreme Court in Beckles v. United States, 
    137 S. Ct. 886
    ,
    890 (2017), and our earlier decision in United States v. Matchett, 
    802 F.3d 1185
    ,
    1194‒95 (11th Cir. 2015). In Beckles, the Supreme Court affirmed this Court and
    ruled, as we had in Matchett, that the residual clause of section 4B1.2(a)(2) was not
    unconstitutionally vague because the Sentencing Guidelines are not subject to
    challenges for vagueness under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
    
    Beckles, 137 S. Ct. at 890
    , 895. In Matchett, we also determined that a prior
    conviction for burglary of an unoccupied dwelling under Florida law, Fla. Stat.
    § 810.02(1)(b), (3)(b), was a “crime of violence” under the residual clause of
    section 
    4B1.2(a)(2). 802 F.3d at 1196
    ‒97. We affirm Diaz’s sentence.
    AFFIRMED.
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Document Info

Docket Number: 16-10349 Non-Argument Calendar

Judges: Marcus, Pryor, Fay

Filed Date: 4/10/2017

Precedential Status: Non-Precedential

Modified Date: 11/6/2024