United States v. Efren Medrano-Macias

MEMORANDUM

Efren Medrano-Maeias appeals from the district court’s judgment and challenges the 15-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 . We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Medrano-Maeias contends that the district court improperly aggregated two pri- or sentences when determining a baseline for the length of his current sentence. The record reflects that although the sentences arose from separate proceedings, they related to the same conduct and were imposed in close temporal proximity to each other. The district court did not err by concluding that a sentence greater than the combination of these two prior sentences was necessary to provide adequate deterrence.

Medrano-Maeias also contends that the district court placed undue weight on the Guidelines and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence. The district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing Medrano-Macias’s sentence. See Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 , 128 S.Ct. 586 , 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007). The low-end Guidelines sentence is substantively reasonable in light of the 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a)…