NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JAN 19 2018 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 17-50165 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 3:16-cr-02797-CAB v. MEMORANDUM* MANUEL DE JESUS VARELA, a.k.a. De Jesus Isaguires-Varela, Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Cathy Ann Bencivengo, District Judge, Presiding Submitted January 16, 2018** Before: REINHARDT, TROTT, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges. Manuel De Jesus Varela appeals from the district court’s judgment and challenges the 21-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for 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. * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). De Jesus Varela argues that the district court procedurally erred by failing to explain why it rejected his non-frivolous argument that his reason for reentry justified a lower sentence. We review for plain error, see United States v. Valencia-Barragan, 608 F.3d 1103, 1108 (9th Cir. 2010), and conclude that there is none. The record reflects that the district court considered De Jesus Varela’s sentencing arguments and adequately explained its reasons for selecting a within- Guidelines term. See Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 358-59 (2007). Contrary to De Jesus Varela’s contention, the record as a whole reflects that the district court believed that, notwithstanding De Jesus Varela’s mitigating arguments, a sentence at the top of the Guidelines range was warranted in light of his criminal and immigration history. See United States v. Carty, 520 F.3d 984, 992 (9th Cir. 2008) (en banc) (adequate explanation can be inferred from the record as a whole). AFFIRMED. 2 17-50165 17-50165 Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ca9 9th Cir. United States v. Manuel Varela 19 January 2018 Criminal Unpublished 2b29ecf0475a4bef4c88653b35744790f0fe30fc
Original document
Source: All recent Immigration Decisions In All the U.S. Courts of Appeals