United States v. Miguel Alvarez-Adame
Opinion
Opinion
MEMORANDUM
Miguel Alvarez-Adame appeals from the 110-month sentence imposed following his conviction for being a deported alien found in the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 . Pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 , 87 S.Ct. 1396 , 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), Alvarez-Adame’s counsel has filed a brief stating there are no grounds for relief, along with a motion to withdraw as counsel of record. Alvarez-Adame filed a pro se supplemental brief and the government filed an answering brief.
Our independent review of the record pursuant to Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 80-81 , 109 S.Ct. 346, 349-50 , 102 L.Ed.2d 300 (1988), discloses no arguable grounds for relief on direct appeal.
We decline to reconsider AlvarezAdame’s challenge to the validity of the underlying deportation order because this court already decided that issue in United States v. Alvarez-Adame, 346 Fed.Appx. 169 (9th Cir.2009). See United States v. Scrivner, 189 F.3d 825, 827 (9th Cir.1999) (under the law of the case doctrine, one panel of an appellate court will not reeonsider questions which another panel has decided on a prior appeal in the same case).