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FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION JAN 27 2015 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 14-50160 Plaintiff - Appellee, D.C. No. 3:14-cr-00044-LAB v. MEMORANDUM* ARISTEO ORTIZ-SANCHEZ, a.k.a. Aristeo Cortez-Sanchez, a.k.a. Mario Gomez-Sanchez, a.k.a. Aristeo Sanchez Ortiz, a.k.a. Miguel Sanchez-Cortez, a.k.a. Teo, a.k.a. Geraldo Valencia, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Larry A. Burns, District Judge, Presiding Submitted January 21, 2015** Before: CANBY, GOULD, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges. Aristeo Ortiz-Sanchez appeals from the district court’s judgment and challenges the 75-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). being a removed alien found in the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm. Ortiz-Sanchez contends that the district court’s discretionary denial of a fast- track departure under U.S.S.G. § 5K3.1 rendered his sentence substantively unreasonable. “In analyzing challenges to a court’s upward and downward departures . . . under Section 5K, we do not evaluate them for procedural correctness, but rather, as part of a sentence’s substantive reasonableness.” United States v. Ellis,
641 F.3d 411, 421 (9th Cir. 2011). The district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing Ortiz-Sanchez’s sentence. See Gall v. United States,
552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007). The within-Guidelines sentence is substantively reasonable in light of the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors and the totality of the circumstances, including Ortiz-Sanchez’s criminal history and numerous prior deportations. See
Gall, 552 U.S. at 51. AFFIRMED. 2 14-50160
Document Info
Docket Number: 14-50160
Judges: Canby, Gould, Smith
Filed Date: 1/27/2015
Precedential Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 11/6/2024