Gomez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 23-435 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellee, 8:20-cr-00171-

JVS-FWS-

v.

JESUS RAMIRO GOMEZ, AKA

Hunter, OPINION

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California James V. Selna, Senior District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted En Banc September 9, 2025 San Francisco, California

Filed January 13, 2026

Before: Mary H. Murguia, Chief Judge, and Ronald M. Gould, Milan D. Smith, Jr., Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Ryan D. Nelson, Eric D. Miller, Daniel P. Collins, Lucy H. Koh, Jennifer Sung, Holly A. Thomas, and Ana de Alba, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge H.A. Thomas; Concurrence by Judge Collins SUMMARY*

Criminal Law

The en banc court affirmed the district court’s judgment in a case in which the district court found that Jesus Ramiro Gomez, who pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, was subject to a career offender enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1(a) because his prior conviction for assault with a deadly weapon under California…