Case: 19-50693 Document: 00515390698 Page: 1 Date Filed: 04/21/2020 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 19-50693 United States Court of Appeals Summary Calendar Fifth Circuit FILED April 21, 2020 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Lyle W. Cayce Clerk Plaintiff-Appellee v. CESAR NOEL CHAVIRA-MADRID, also known as Carlos Gomez-Talvares, also known as Miguel Alexis Garcia-Garcia, Defendant-Appellant Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas USDC No. 3:18-CR-2561-1 Before KING, GRAVES, and WILLETT, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: * Cesar Noel Chavira-Madrid pleaded guilty to illegal reentry and was sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release. Although he has already been released from prison and returned to Mexico, his appeal of his conviction is not moot. See United States v. * 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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.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. Case: 19-50693 Document: 00515390698 Page: 2 Date Filed: 04/21/2020 No. 19-50693 Villanueva-Diaz, 634 F.3d 844, 849 (5th Cir. 2011); United States v. Lares- Meraz, 452 F.3d 352, 355 (5th Cir. 2006). As part of his guilty plea, Chavira-Madrid reserved the right to challenge the district court’s denial of a motion to dismiss the indictment. On appeal he reiterates his argument that the immigration court in his initial removal proceedings never acquired jurisdiction because his notice to appear failed to specify a date and time of appearance. As a result, he contends, the removal order entered against him is void, which left the Government unable to prove an essential element of the offense. As to the strictures of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d), which limits an alien’s ability to collaterally attack a removal order, Chavira- Madrid asserts that it poses no obstacle because his challenge is jurisdictional in nature and because, given the state of the law at the time of his initial removal proceedings, he is excused from meeting the requirements of § 1326(d)(1) and (2). Chavira-Madrid concedes that his arguments are foreclosed by United States v. Pedroza-Rocha, 933 F.3d 490 (5th Cir. 2019), petition for cert. filed (U.S. Nov. 6, 2019) (No. 19-6588). There too the defendant argued that failure to include date-and-time information in a notice to appear is a jurisdictional defect, and we found this argument to be both without merit and barred by § 1326(d) for failure to exhaust. 933 F.3d at 496-98. Chavira-Madrid’s identical and similarly unexhausted jurisdictional argument must accordingly fail for the same reasons. To the extent that Pedroza-Rocha does not speak to Chavira-Madrid’s contention that he can escape the strictures of § 1326(d)(1) and (2) under a “futility” exception, this argument is of no moment here. An alien “must prove all three prongs” of § 1326(d) to successfully challenge a prior removal order. United States v. Cordova-Soto, 804 F.3d 714, 719 (5th Cir. 2015). In claiming 2 Case: 19-50693 Document: 00515390698 Page: 3 Date Filed: 04/21/2020 ...
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