U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2025

United States v. Carcasses

United States v. Carcasses
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · Decided June 23, 2025

United States v. Carcasses

Opinion

Case: 24-40552 Document: 58-1 Page: 1 Date Filed: 06/23/2025

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ____________ United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED No. 24-40552 June 23, 2025 Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce ____________ Clerk United States of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, versus Illeysel Carcasses, Defendant—Appellant. ______________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas USDC No. 2:23-CR-620-1 ______________________________ Before Jolly, Jones, and Willett, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam: * Following a jury trial, Illeysel Carcasses was convicted of transporting an illegal alien within the United States. The district court sentenced him to months of imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release. On appeal, Carcasses argues that the district court’s statements at the end of the sentencing hearing modified the immigration-related _____________________ * This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.

Case: 24-40552 Document: 58-1 Page: 2 Date Filed: 06/23/2025

No. 24-40552

supervised release condition that the court had already orally pronounced, creating a conflict between the pronouncement and written judgment.

We need not decide the standard of review because there was no error.

See United States v. Rodriguez, 523 F.3d 519, 525 (5th Cir. 2008). At the sentencing hearing, the district court stated that the immigration-related condition recommended by the presentence report would be imposed, and that same condition was set forth in the written judgment. Contrary to Carcasses’s assertions, that pronouncement was not orally modified by the district court’s statements at the end of the sentencing hearing. To the extent there was any ambiguity, it is clear from the discussion that the district court at that point was focused solely on Carcasses’s ability to self-surrender for incarceration. There is no support for the contention that the court intended to modify the immigration-related supervised release condition it had already pronounced. See United States v. Baez-Adriano, 74 F.4th 292, 303 (5th Cir. 2023).

Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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