Avarez-Gutierrez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 04-10241 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-03-02064-JMR

DANIEL ALVAREZ-GUTIERREZ,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona John M. Roll, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 3, 2004—San Francisco, California

Filed January 14, 2005

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, David R. Thompson, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Thompson; Concurrence by Judge Reinhardt; Dissent by Judge Berzon

705 708 UNITED STATES v. ALVAREZ-GUTIERREZ

COUNSEL

John D. Kaufmann, Tucson, Arizona, for the defendant- appellant.

Bruce M. Ferg, Assistant United States Attorney, Tucson, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The defendant-appellant Daniel Alvarez-Gutierrez pleaded guilty to illegal entry after deportation in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (2003). In imposing sentence, the district court enhanced Alvarez-Gutierrez’s base offense level by eight levels pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(C) (2003), which…