Venegas-Zamora

United States v. Venegas-Zamora

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332 F. App'x 395
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJune 2, 2009No. 08-50240California483 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Rafael Venegas-Zamora (“Venegas”) appeals the seventy-month sentence imposed after his guilty-plea conviction for illegal reentry following removal in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 . We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742 (a), and we affirm but remand to correct the judgment.

1. The district court did not err by imposing a sixteen-level sentencing enhancement for Venegas’s prior conviction under California Penal Code section 288(a). See U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(l)(A)(ii) (2007). We previously have held that section 288(a) categorically constitutes a “crime of violence” under the approach set forth in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575 , 110 S.Ct. 2143 , 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990). See United States v. Medina-Maella, 351 F.3d 944, 947 (9th Cir.2003); United States v. Barorn-Medina, 187 F.3d 1144, 1147 (9th Cir.1999). For the reasons explained in United States v. Medina-Villa, 567 F.3d 507, 511-16 (9th Cir.2009), our recent decision in Estrada-Espinoza v. Mukasey, 546 F.3d 1147 (9th Cir.2008) (en banc), does not change this conclusion.

2. We previously have rejected Venegas’s claim that the use of a prior conviction as a basis for both a…

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