Opinion
No. 09-50357.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided bv 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Filed April 14, 2010.
Sandra Hesun Shin, Esquire, Special Assistant U.S., United States Attorney Office, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Gia Kim, Esquire, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender's Office, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California, A. Howard Matz, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. 2:09-cr-00120-AHM.
Before: RYMER, McKEOWN, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
The parties are familiar with the facts of the case, so we will repeat them here only to the extent necessary to explain our decision.
Sergio Alejandro Avalos Martinez appeals from the 60-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for being an illegal alien found in the United States following deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm, but remand to correct the judgment.
Avalos Martinez contends that the district court procedurally erred at sentencing by failing to address his nonfrivolous arguments in support of a lower sentence. Avalos Martinez further contends that his sentence is substantively unreasonable because: (1) the applicable Guidelines range overemphasizes the seriousness of his criminal history; and (2) the sentence results in unwarranted sentence disparities. The record reflects that the district court did not procedurally err, and that, in light of the totality of the circumstances, the sentence below the Guidelines range is not substantively unreasonable. See United States v. Carty, 520 F.3d 984, 991-93 (9th Cir. 2008) (en banc); see also United States v. Vasquez-Landaver, 527 F.3d 798, 804-05 (9th Cir. 2008) (holding that the district court did not err by declining to impose the sentence that the defendant would have received pursuant to a fast-track plea agreement that the defendant had rejected).
We remand the case to the district court with instructions that it delete from the judgment the reference to 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2). See United States v. Rivera-Sanchez, 222 F.3d 1057, 1062 (9th Cir. 2000).