Amazan-Becerra

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-10056 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-03-40212-DLJ

JULIO ALMAZAN-BECERRA,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California D. Lowell Jensen, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 16, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed August 1, 2006

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Michael Daly Hawkins, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wallace COUNSEL

Donald W. Searles, Fenwick & West LLP, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellant Julio Almazan-Becerra. 8544 UNITED STATES v. ALMAZAN-BECERRA Barbara J. Valliere, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:

Almazan-Becerra appeals from his sentence of seventy months imprisonment following a conviction of illegal reentry following deportation in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. He argues that application of a sixteen-level enhancement for a prior felony drug…