United States v. Julio Castellanos-Salamanca

MEMORANDUM

Julio Amilcar Castellanos-Salamanca appeals from the district court’s judgment and challenges the 14-month custodial sentence and 22-month term of supervised release imposed upon revocation of supervised release. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Castellanos-Salamanca contends that the district court procedurally erred in several ways. We review for plain error, see United States v. Miqbel, 444 F.3d 1173, 1176 (9th Cir.2006), and find none. Contrary to Castellanos-Salamanca’s contention, the record reflects that the court properly used the advisory Guidelines range as an initial benchmark for the custodial sentence and kept the range in mind throughout the sentencing process. See United States v. Carty, 520 F.3d 984, 991 (9th Cir.2008) (en banc). To the extent that the court failed to explicitly calculate the advisory Guidelines range for the term of supervised release, Castellanos-Sala-manca has not shown a reasonable probability that he would have received a different sentence absent the alleged error. See United States v. Christensen, 732 F.3d 1094, 1101-02 (9th Cir.2013). The record further reflects that the court applied the correct…