Labra-Morales

United States v. Labra-Morales

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229 F. App'x 497
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 23, 2007No. 06-50342California339 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Defendant-Appellant Magín LabraMorales pled guilty to being a deported alien found in the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 . The district court sentenced Labra-Morales to forty-six months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. In imposing sentence, the district court applied a sixteen-point enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2 because Labra-Morales was previously deported after he was convicted in 1983 of child molestation, a “crime of violence.”

Labra-Morales appeals his forty-six month sentence. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

During the guilty-plea hearing, LabraMorales admitted that he was previously deported. However, no specific date of deportation was charged in the indictment or admitted by Labra-Morales. The Presentence Report (“PSR”) listed three dates of prior deportations, all of which followed Labra-Morales’s 1983 child molestation conviction. Labra-Morales contends that we must vacate his sentence because the district court erred in relying on the deportation dates listed in the PSR to enhance his sentence.

We disagree with Labra-Morales and find that the error, if any, was…

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