United States v. Chavez-Guerrero
United States v. Chavez-Guerrero
Opinion
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit F I L E D IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT December 3, 2003
Charles R. Fulbruge III Clerk No. 03-40185
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Plaintiff - Appellee
v.
CARLOS CHAVEZ-GUERRERO
Defendant - Appellant
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Laredo No. L-02-1122
Before KING, Chief Judge, and DAVIS and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit
Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
On October 15, 2002, Defendant Carlos Chavez-Guerrero
pleaded guilty to one count of transporting an illegal alien
within the United States for private financial gain in violation
of
8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) (2000). The district court
sentenced Chavez-Guerrero to eighteen months of imprisonment and
three years of supervised release. No conditions of supervised
release were mentioned during the oral pronouncement of sentence.
* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4. The court’s judgment, however, included the following condition
for Chavez-Guerrero’s supervised release: “The defendant shall
not possess a firearm, destructive device, or any other dangerous
weapon during the supervised release.” On appeal, Chavez-
Guerrero argues that the condition that he not possess “any
dangerous weapon” during his supervised release must be stricken
from the judgment because it conflicts with the absence of
conditions during the oral pronouncement of sentence.1
For the reasons outlined in United States v. Torres-Aguilar,
No. 03-40055 (5th Cir. filed Dec. 3, 2003), we find that the
district court’s omission of the dangerous weapon prohibition
during the oral pronouncement of sentence did not create a
conflict with the sentence set forth in the judgment.
Accordingly, the defendant’s judgment is AFFIRMED.
1 Chavez-Guerrero concedes that the judgment’s prohibition on his possession of a firearm or destructive device did not conflict with the oral sentence because, under federal law, it is a crime for a convicted felon to possess either type of device. See United States v. Asuncion-Pimental,
290 F.3d 91, 94-95(2d Cir. 2002).
Reference
- Status
- Unpublished