Opinion
No. 13-10366
03-16-2015
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. JUAN ALBERTO SALMERON-OZUNA, a.k.a. Juan Salmeron-Ozuna, Defendant - Appellant.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 4:11-cr-02983-DCB MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
David C. Bury, District Judge, Presiding
Before: FARRIS, WARDLAW, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Juan Alberto Salmeron-Ozuna appeals from the district court's judgment and challenges the 57-month sentence imposed upon remand following his guilty-plea conviction for reentry after deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. We dismiss.
Salmeron-Ozuna contends that the district court committed procedural and substantive sentencing errors. The government contends that this appeal should be dismissed based on an appeal waiver. Salmeron-Ozuna argues that the appeal waiver cannot be enforced because the waiver is vague and his sentence is not consistent with the plea agreement. We review de novo whether to enforce an appeal waiver. See United States v. Watson, 582 F.3d 974, 981 (9th Cir. 2009). We are unpersuaded that the appeal waiver is ambiguous in light of the clarifying colloquy at the change of plea hearing. Furthermore, Salmeron-Ozuna's sentence is consistent with the plea agreement because his predicate conviction for threatening a federal officer "has as an element the . . . threatened use of physical force against the person of another." U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii), cmt. n.1(B)(iii). Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal in light of the valid appeal waiver. See Watson, 582 F.3d at 988.
DISMISSED.