Cirino

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 03-10711 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-03-00176-RLH

HECTOR CIRINO,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Roger L. Hunt, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 2, 2004—San Francisco, California

Filed August 15, 2005

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, Sidney R. Thomas, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam Opinion

10639 UNITED STATES v. CIRINO 10641

COUNSEL

Jason Carr, AFPD, Las Vegas, Nevada, for appellant Hector Cirino. 10642 UNITED STATES v. CIRINO Timothy S. Vasquez, AUSA, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the appellee.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Defendant-Appellant Hector Cirino appeals the sentence imposed by the district court, which included imposition of a career-offender sentence based on prior felony convictions from crimes committed in Puerto Rico. Specifically, Cirino contends that because Puerto Rico is not a state, his prior Puerto Rican felony convictions are not “prior felony convic- tions of . . . a crime of…