United States v. Leonel Gonzalez-Mancilla , 551 F. App'x 128 ( 2014 )


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  •      Case: 12-40936      Document: 00512489591         Page: 1    Date Filed: 01/06/2014
    IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
    United States Court of Appeals
    Fifth Circuit
    FILED
    No. 12-40936                          January 6, 2014
    Lyle W. Cayce
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                                                         Clerk
    Plaintiff – Appellee
    v.
    LEONEL GONZALEZ-MANCILLA,
    Defendant – Appellant
    Appeal from the United States District Court
    for the Southern District of Texas
    USDC No. 2:12-CR-255
    Before KING, BENAVIDES, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.
    PER CURIAM:*
    Defendant-Appellant Leonel Gonzalez-Mancilla appeals from his
    criminal sentence for illegal reentry after deportation pursuant to 8 U.S.C.
    § 1326(a) and (b). He asserts that the trial court committed reversible error
    when it assessed him one criminal history point for each of two prior Wisconsin
    misdemeanor convictions. Because the convictions were for disorderly conduct
    offenses and should have been excluded from the sentencing calculations, we
    REVERSE and REMAND for resentencing.
    * Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
    be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH
    CIR. R. 47.5.4.
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    I. Background
    Leonel Gonzalez-Mancilla (“Gonzalez-Mancilla”), a Mexican citizen,
    pleaded guilty without a plea agreement to illegal reentry after deportation, in
    violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b). Applying the United States Sentencing
    Commission, Guidelines Manual, (“U.S.S.G.” or “Guidelines”), the presentence
    report (“PSR”) calculated a total offense level of 24 and placed Gonzalez-
    Mancilla in criminal history category IV. Based on his total offense level and
    criminal history category, Gonzalez-Mancilla’s recommended Guidelines range
    was 77 to 96 months of imprisonment.
    Among other things, the PSR assessed Gonzalez-Mancilla one criminal
    history point each under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(c) for his 2004 Wisconsin
    misdemeanor offense, resulting in a $385 fine, and his 2005 Wisconsin
    misdemeanor offense, resulting in a $969 fine. The complaint for the 2004
    offense states that Gonzalez-Mancilla verbally argued with his then-girlfriend,
    “pushed her into the wall and at one point grabbed her head and slammed her
    head against the wall, making a hole.” The complaint for the 2005 offense
    states that Gonzalez-Mancilla showed up at his estranged wife’s place of
    employment, called her “a bitch and a fat whore,” and then warned her that
    she “better watch her back and he would be waiting for her when she gets off
    work.” Also according to the complaint, around the same time, Gonzalez-
    Mancilla went to a bar that his wife was in and threatened to shoot her in the
    head. When police located and arrested Gonzalez-Mancilla several hours later,
    they found a handgun in his vehicle.
    The judgments of conviction for the 2004 and 2005 offenses show that,
    for both, Gonzalez-Mancilla pleaded no contest to “Disorderly Conduct
    [968.075(1)(a) – Domestic Abuse].” They list the violation as “947.01” and the
    severity as a Class B misdemeanor. The criminal complaints for both offenses
    include a single count of “disorderly conduct, domestic abuse.” The complaints
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    further provide that Gonzalez-Mancilla’s actions were “contrary to” Wisconsin
    Statute §§ 947.01 and 968.075(1)(a).       They provide that by “invoking the
    provisions of [§] 968.075(1)(a) . . . , because this charge is an act of domestic
    abuse, costs upon conviction would include the domestic abuse assessment
    imposed under [§] 973.055(1).”
    Before Gonzalez-Mancilla was sentenced, he submitted written
    objections to the PSR’s assessment of one criminal history point each for his
    two prior Wisconsin misdemeanor offenses. He argued that the offenses were
    excludable “disorderly conduct” offenses under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c)(1). The
    Government responded that the offenses were distinguishable from “disorderly
    conduct” offenses under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c)(1) because they were considered
    “domestic abuse incidents” under Wisconsin law.           The probation officer
    advanced the same distinction in an addendum to the PSR. The probation
    officer also explained that Wisconsin’s domestic abuse statute was similar to
    Texas’s assault statute, which is a scored offense.       The officer noted that
    Gonzalez-Mancilla had physically confronted his victim and made knowing
    and intentional threats.
    During the sentencing hearing, Gonzalez-Mancilla reurged his objection
    to the assessment of two criminal history points for his prior Wisconsin
    misdemeanor convictions. The district court overruled that objection. The
    district court sustained a separate objection by Gonzalez-Mancilla, reducing
    his offense level to 21 and resulting in a Guidelines range of 57 to 71 months.
    The district court sentenced Gonzalez-Mancilla at the bottom of the Guidelines
    range to 57 months in prison and imposed a $100 special assessment.
    Gonzalez-Mancilla timely appealed his sentence.
    II. Standard of Review
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    The parties acknowledge that Gonzalez-Mancilla raised in the district
    court his objections to the assessment of criminal history points for his prior
    Wisconsin misdemeanor convictions. For properly preserved objections, this
    court reviews de novo a sentencing court’s interpretation and application of the
    Guidelines. United States v. Serfass, 
    684 F.3d 548
    , 550 (5th Cir. 2012).
    III. Discussion
    Gonzalez-Mancilla challenges on appeal the district court’s assessment
    under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(c) of one criminal history point for each of his two prior
    Wisconsin misdemeanor convictions. Under the Guidelines’ criminal history
    scoring rules, a prior conviction resulting in a sentence of a fine is ordinarily
    scored one criminal history point.             U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(c); § 4A1.1 cmt. 5.
    However, under certain conditions, a prior misdemeanor offense will not
    trigger the assessment of a criminal history point when the prior offense is: (1)
    an enumerated offense under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c)(1) or (2) similar to such an
    offense. 1 A criminal history point will not be assessed for a listed misdemeanor
    offense, unless “the sentence was a term of probation of more than one year or
    a term of imprisonment of at least thirty days” or “the prior offense was similar
    to an instant offense.” U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c)(1)(A), (B). Gonzalez-Mancilla and
    the Government both acknowledge that Gonzalez-Mancilla was not sentenced
    to probation or imprisonment for his prior Wisconsin misdemeanor offenses
    and that those offenses are not similar to the offense of illegal reentry after
    deportation. The question in this appeal is whether or not Gonzalez-Mancilla’s
    prior Wisconsin misdemeanor offenses are for a listed offense under U.S.S.G.
    § 4A1.2(c), or are “similar to” such an offense.
    1 The offenses listed in U.S.S.G. §4A1.2(c)(1) are: “Careless or reckless driving”;
    “Contempt of court”; “Disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace”; “Driving without a license
    or with a revoked or suspended license”; “False information to a police officer”; “Gambling”;
    “Hindering or failure to obey a police officer”; “Insufficient funds check”; “Leaving the scene
    of an accident”; “Non-support”; “Prostitution”; “Resisting arrest”; and “Trespassing.”
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    A road map to the arguments here is useful. Gonzalez-Mancilla argues
    that because each of his prior Wisconsin misdemeanor offenses is a listed
    offense, § 4A1.2(c)(1)(A) governs and the offense therefore does not trigger an
    additional criminal history point under § 4A1.1(c). The Government, seeking
    to add the criminal history point for each conviction, argues that the conviction
    is neither a listed offense nor similar to a listed offense under § 4A1.2(c)(1)(A)
    and therefore qualifies for an additional criminal history point under
    § 4A1.1(c).
    Turning to Gonzalez-Mancilla’s Wisconsin misdemeanor convictions, he
    argues that he was convicted solely of disorderly conduct under § 947.01 and
    that “disorderly conduct” is an offense listed under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c)(1). He
    contends that the references in the charging documents and judgments of
    conviction to “domestic abuse” and to § 973.055 and § 968.075 relate to
    sentencing enhancements and other issues, and not to offenses for which he
    was charged and convicted.
    The Government and the district court, by contrast, adopt the reasoning
    of the PSR that Gonzalez-Mancilla was twice convicted of “disorderly conduct-
    domestic abuse,” which is distinguishable from disorderly conduct as listed in
    U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c)(1). In reaching this conclusion, the Government points to
    references in the charging documents and judgments of conviction to the
    domestic abuse surcharge statute, Wis. Stat. § 973.055, and the domestic abuse
    incidents statute, § 968.075. Unlike disorderly conduct, domestic abuse is not
    exempted as an enumerated offense under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c)(1).
    In resolving this issue, we first consider whether Gonzalez-Mancilla was
    convicted of a criminal offense under Wisconsin Statute § 968.075.
    Section 968.075—entitled “domestic abuse incidents; arrest and prosecution”—
    defines “domestic abuse” as one of several acts “engaged in by an adult person
    against his or her spouse or former spouse, against an adult with whom the
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    person resides or formerly resided or against an adult with whom the person
    has a child in common.” 
    Id. § 968.075(1)(a).
    Acts qualifying as “domestic
    abuse” include: (1) “intentional infliction of physical pain, physical injury or
    illness”; (2) “intentional impairment of physical condition”; (3) sexual assault;
    and (4) “a physical act that may cause the other person reasonably to fear
    imminent engagement in the conduct described under [subdivisions] 1, 2, or
    3.” 
    Id. § 968.075(1)(a)(1)–(4).
           Although § 968.075 defines “domestic abuse,” it does not create criminal
    liability.   The statute principally sets out policies for police and district
    attorney’s offices to follow in making domestic abuse arrests and prosecutions.
    See 
    id. § 968.075(2)–(4),
    (6)–(9).         The sole provision directed at criminal
    defendants, § 968.075(5)(a), imposes a 72-hour contact prohibition on anyone
    arrested for (not convicted of) domestic abuse. 2               See State v. Neis, No.
    09AP1287–CR, 
    2010 WL 2772679
    , at *4 (Wis. App. July 15, 2010) (holding that
    while Ҥ 968.075(1)(a) appears in the court documents, the statute . . . plainly
    governs law enforcement procedures in domestic abuse cases . . . [and] does not
    create criminal liability for the domestic abuse perpetrator”); State v. Auger,
    No. 03-3306-CR, 
    2004 WL 1057878
    , at *2 n.4 (Wis. App. May 11, 2004) (holding
    that “[t]o the extent [the defendant] challenges the notation as adding domestic
    abuse as an element of disorderly conduct, the judgment of conviction correctly
    notes his actions were a violation of § 947.01, not § 968.075”). 3 Thus, the fact
    2 Section 968.075(5)(a)(2) makes individuals who intentionally violate the 72-hour
    contact prohibition criminally liable for fines of up to $10,000 and imprisonment of up to 9
    months. There is no suggestion in the record or in the parties’ briefs that Gonzalez-Mancilla
    was convicted of violating the contact prohibition.
    3 The Government points us to State v. VanEperen, 2006AP2659–CR, 
    2007 WL 1892475
    (Wis. App. July 3, 2004), in which a Wisconsin appeals court reversed a dismissal of
    a complaint charging misdemeanor disorderly conduct and also referencing Wisconsin
    Statute § 968.075. In concluding that there were sufficient facts to support the complaint,
    the court discussed, inter alia, the elements for showing “domestic abuse” under § 968.075.
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    that Gonzalez-Mancilla’s conduct may have been referred to in the state court
    documents as “domestic abuse” under § 968.075 does not show that he was
    convicted of an offense called “domestic abuse.”
    Next, we consider whether Gonzalez-Mancilla was convicted of a
    criminal offense under § 973.055, Wisconsin’s “domestic abuse assessments”
    statute. Section 973.055 provides that a court “shall impose a domestic abuse
    surcharge” if two conditions are met: (1) the defendant is sentenced under an
    offense listed in the statute and (2) “[t]he court finds that the conduct
    constituting the violation . . . involved an act by the adult person against his
    or her spouse or former spouse, against an adult with whom the adult person
    resides or formerly resided or against an adult with whom the adult person has
    created a child.” 
    Id. § 973.055(1)(a)(1),
    (1)(a)(2). Domestic abuse surcharges
    were imposed on Gonzalez-Mancilla because disorderly conduct is an offense
    listed in § 973.055(1) and because the acts underlying his two offenses were
    against his live-in girlfriend and wife, respectively.
    We are persuaded by Gonzalez-Mancilla’s position that § 973.055 is a
    sentencing statute rather than a statute of conviction. In Almendarez-Torres
    v. United States, 
    523 U.S. 224
    , 226 (1998), the Supreme Court considered
    whether the statutory provision at issue in that case, 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2),
    “defines a separate crime or simply authorizes an enhanced penalty.” The
    Court explained that “[i]n answering this question, we look to the statute’s
    language, structure, subject matter, context, and history—factors that
    typically help courts determine a statute’s objectives and thereby illuminate
    its text.” 
    Almendarez-Torres, 523 U.S. at 228
    . Applying this analysis, it is
    clear that the Wisconsin legislature did not intend § 973.055 to create a stand-
    To read VanEperen as requiring the allegation of the elements of the domestic abuse statute
    in order to charge a disorderly conduct violation would put it in conflict with Auger, Neis, and
    the language of § 968.075, and we do not read it that way.
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    alone offense. 4 By its own language, the statute imposes an “assessment” or
    “surcharge” on adult persons “sentenced” for violating certain crimes.
    Additionally, § 973.055 commits to a judge (rather than to a jury) the decision
    of whether the conditions have been satisfied for imposing a domestic violence
    surcharge. 
    Id. § 973.055(1),
    (1)(a)(2), see also Auger, 
    2004 WL 1057878
    , at *2
    & n.4 (holding that because § 973.055 “explicitly grants this sentencing
    authority to the court[,] there is nothing for a jury to deliberate”). As a result,
    we find that Gonzalez-Mancilla’s prior Wisconsin convictions were solely for
    disorderly conduct offenses.
    The Government further argues that Gonzalez-Mancilla’s prior
    Wisconsin misdemeanor offenses fall outside the generic offense of disorderly
    conduct because they involved violent and threatening acts. Thus, in the
    Government’s view, we should affirm the district court’s sentence even if
    Gonzalez-Mancilla’s offenses are properly characterized under state law as
    “disorderly conduct.”
    Gonzalez-Mancilla        acknowledges        that    Wisconsin’s      misdemeanor
    disorderly conduct statute criminalizes violent conduct. At the time of his
    conviction, the statute provided as follows:
    Whoever, in a public or private place, engages in violent, abusive,
    indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud or otherwise
    4 The Government responds by pointing to the Eighth Circuit’s holding in United
    States v. Frausto-Vasquez, 435 F. App’x 575, 577 (8th Cir. 2011), that a reference to
    § 968.075(1)(a) in a state court disorderly conduct complaint was relevant to determining,
    using the modified categorical approach, whether the prior offense was a “crime of violence”
    under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(E). The Eighth Circuit sidestepped the defendant’s argument
    that because § 968.075 was merely a “procedural statute,” it did not add an element to his
    disorderly conduct discharge. The court explained that the reference to § 968.075 was
    material under the modified categorical approach because Wisconsin’s disorderly conduct
    statute criminalizes both violent and nonviolent conduct, while only the former is a “crime of
    violence” for sentencing purposes. Frausto-Vasquez is inapposite because the present case
    does not involve the application of the modified categorical approach, which permits courts
    in limited circumstances to look beyond the elements of the statute of conviction.
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    disorderly conduct under circumstances in which the conduct
    tends to cause or provoke a disturbance is guilty of a Class B
    misdemeanor.
    Wis. Stat. § 947.01 (2005). Nevertheless, Gonzalez-Mancilla contends that the
    generic offense of “disorderly conduct” is sufficiently broad to encompass even
    violent and threatening behavior.
    In United States v. Rodriguez, 
    711 F.3d 541
    (5th Cir. 2013), our en banc
    court recently clarified our approach to determining whether an offense of
    conviction is an enumerated offense under the Guidelines. We described this
    approach as follows:
    First, we identify the undefined offense category that triggers the
    federal sentencing enhancement. We then evaluate whether the
    meaning of that offense category is clear from the language of the
    enhancement at issue or its applicable commentary. If not, we
    proceed to step two, and determine whether that undefined offense
    category is an offense category defined at common law, or an
    offense category that is not defined at common law. Third, if the
    offense category is a non-common-law offense category, then we
    derive its “generic, contemporary meaning” from its common usage
    as stated in legal and other well-accepted dictionaries. Fourth, we
    look to the elements of the state statute of conviction and evaluate
    whether those elements comport with the generic meaning of the
    enumerated offense category.
    
    Id. at 552–53
    (footnotes omitted). We further explained that “we may resort to
    many sources . . . to determine whether an enumerated offense category is
    defined at common law or not.” 
    Id. at 552
    n.16. These sources may include
    “definitions in the variety of state codes, the Model Penal Code, federal law,
    and criminal law treatises.” 
    Id. at 552
    n.17.
    Applying this approach here, we initially note that the Guidelines and
    the relevant commentary do not define the offense of disorderly conduct as
    enumerated in U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c). See United States v. Grob, 
    625 F.3d 1209
    ,
    1215 (9th Cir. 2010). Nor is disorderly conduct an offense category defined at
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    common law. See 
    Rodriguez, 711 F.3d at 552
    n. 16 (omitting disorderly conduct
    from its lists of common law offenses); see also Wayne R. LaFave, 1 Subst.
    Crim. L. § 2.1 n. 67 (2d ed. 2003) (acknowledging the Virginia Supreme Court’s
    holding in Lewis v. Commonwealth, 
    34 S.E.2d 389
    (Va. 1945), that disorderly
    conduct was not a common law crime).             To determine the “generic,
    contemporary meaning” of disorderly conduct, we look to its common usage as
    stated in legal and other well accepted dictionaries.
    Black’s Law Dictionary provides that disorderly conduct refers to
    “[b]ehavior that tends to disturb the public peace, offend public morals, or
    undermine public safety.”      Black’s Law Dictionary 337 (9th ed. 1991).
    Disorderly conduct incorporates the common law offense of breaching the
    peace, which takes place “when either an assault is committed on an individual
    or public alarm and excitement is caused.” 
    Id. An older
    edition of Black’s
    construes disorderly conduct in reference to the Model Penal Code. See Black’s
    Law Dictionary 469 (6th ed.).      The Model Penal Code, in turn, defines
    “disorderly conduct” in the following manner:
    A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with purpose to cause
    public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or recklessly creating
    a risk thereof, he: (a) engages in fighting or threatening, or in
    violent or tumultuous behavior; or (b) makes unreasonable noise
    or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or addresses
    abusive language to any person present; or (c) creates a hazardous
    or physically offensive condition by an act which serves no
    legitimate purpose of the actor.
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    Model Penal Code § 250.2(2). 5 These dictionary sources support Gonzalez-
    Mancilla’s position that the “generic, contemporary meaning” of disorderly
    conduct includes fighting and using abusive language. 6
    Gonzalez-Mancilla further contends that this circuit previously
    recognized in United States v. Reyes-Maya, 
    305 F.3d 362
    (5th Cir. 2002), that
    “disorderly conduct” can include violent and threatening behavior.                        The
    defendant in that case, who was charged with illegal reentry following
    deportation, appealed the assessment of one criminal history point for a prior
    misdemeanor conviction under Texas’s criminal mischief statute, Tex. Penal
    Code § 28.03 (1992). This court reversed on the ground that the defendant’s
    criminal mischief conviction was sufficiently similar to the listed offense of
    “disorderly conduct” to be excludable under U.S.S.G. § 
    4A1.2(c)(1). 305 F.3d at 368
    . In doing so, this court noted that “[d]isorderly conduct need not be violent,
    but can include violent acts such as discharging a firearm in a public place.”
    
    Id. at 367.
    Reyes-Maya provides additional support for Gonzalez-Mancilla’s
    position that the generic offense of disorderly conduct includes violent conduct.
    Lastly, the Government argues that we should apply the multifactor
    approach that this circuit developed in United States v. Hardeman, 
    933 F.2d 278
    , 281 (5th Cir. 1991), to decide whether Gonzalez-Mancilla’s prior offenses
    5 Gonzalez-Mancilla further cites to Wharton’s Criminal Law’s “disorderly conduct”
    definition, which includes: “fighting or violent or disruptive behavior; making loud or
    unreasonable noise; using offensive, abusive, or obscene language, or making an obscene
    gesture.” Charles E. Torcia, 4 Wharton’s Criminal Law § 505 (15th ed. 2006).
    6 At oral argument, Gonzalez-Mancilla also pointed to the federal prohibition on
    disorderly conduct in national parks. That prohibition provides, in relevant part, that “[a]
    person commits disorderly conduct when, with intent to cause public alarm, nuisance,
    jeopardy or violence, or knowingly or recklessly creating a risk thereof, such person . . .
    [e]ngages in fighting or threatening, or in violent behavior [or] . . . [u]ses language, an
    utterance, or gesture, or engages in a display or act that is obscene, physically threatening
    or menacing, or done in a manner that is likely to inflict injury or incite an immediate breach
    of the peace.” 36 C.F.R. § 2.34.
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    are “similar to” an enumerated offense under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c).            The
    Hardeman factors were developed to determine whether a defendant’s conduct
    was “similar to” an enumerated offense under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(c)(1). See 
    id. at 281;
    see also U.S.S.G § 4A1.2(c)(1) cmt. 12. Gonzalez-Mancilla’s primary
    argument, however, is that his prior disorderly conduct offenses were both for
    the listed offense of “disorderly conduct” (not merely “similar to” such an
    offense). We have agreed with that argument. As a result, there is no need to
    turn to the Hardeman factors. The categorical approach decides here whether
    Gonzalez-Mancilla’s prior misdemeanor convictions were enumerated offenses.
    See Descamps v. United States, 
    133 S. Ct. 2276
    , 2281–82 (2013) (explaining
    that under the “categorical approach” courts compare the elements of the
    statute of conviction to the elements of the generic offense included in the
    Guidelines).
    Because the elements of the Wisconsin disorderly conduct statute
    comport with the generic meaning of the enumerated offense of disorderly
    conduct, the district court erred in assessing Gonzalez-Mancilla one criminal
    history point under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.1(c) for each of his prior disorderly conduct
    offenses.
    Gonzalez-Mancilla contends that the district court’s error mandates
    reversal and a recalculation of his sentence. This court will reverse a district
    court’s sentencing error “unless the error is harmless.” 
    Reyes-Maya, 305 F.3d at 368
    . In sentencing cases, “the harmless error doctrine applies only if the
    proponent of the sentence convincingly demonstrates both (1) that the district
    court would have imposed the same sentence had it not made the error, and
    (2) that it would have done so for the same reasons it gave at the prior
    sentencing.” United States v. Ibarra-Luna, 
    628 F.3d 712
    , 714 (5th Cir. 2010);
    see also United States v. Valdez, 
    726 F.3d 684
    , 697 (5th Cir. 2013). To satisfy
    this burden, there must be “evidence in the record that will convince us that
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    the district court had a particular sentence in mind and would have imposed
    it, notwithstanding the error.”    
    Ibarra-Luna, 628 F.3d at 718
    (internal
    quotation marks omitted).    “That the sentence would remain within the
    adjusted Guidelines range is insufficient to indicate harmlessness[.]” 
    Valdez, 726 F.3d at 697
    .
    Had Gonzalez-Mancilla’s prior disorderly conduct convictions been
    treated as exempt, he would have been assessed five instead of seven criminal
    history points. This would have reduced his Criminal History Category to III
    and resulted in a Guidelines range of 46 to 57 months. U.S.S.G. Ch. 5, Pt. A.
    The Government does not point to any evidence in the record that defeats the
    presumption against harmless error that applies to mistakes in calculating the
    Guidelines range. Reversal of Gonzalez-Mancilla’s sentence is warranted.
    IV. Conclusion
    For the foregoing reasons, we REVERSE Gonzalez-Mancilla’s sentence
    and REMAND to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this
    opinion.
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