Morales-Castro

United States v. Morales-Castro

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198 F. App'x 680
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitAugust 25, 2006No. 05-10163California314 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Luis Armando Morales-Castro appeals from the 54-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for unlawful reentry of a deported alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (a). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Morales-Castro contends that the district court erred by adding one criminal history point to his criminal history score based on his prior Nevada DUI conviction because the Nevada DUI statute is over-broad under Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575 , 110 S.Ct. 2143 , 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990), and the government failed to provide proper documentation of that conviction. Both of these contentions are foreclosed by existing case law. See United States v. Ellsworth, 456 F.3d 1146, 1152 (9th Cir.2006) (“The Taylor problem does not arise when dealing with such criminal history facts because they are independent of the nature of the underlying offense.”); see also United States v. Marin-Cuevas, 147 F.3d 889, 895 (9th Cir.1998) (holding that the district court did not err in finding that the defendant had been convicted of certain misdemeanors for purposes of assigning criminal history points where the only evidence of…

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