United States v. Tapia-Romero
United States v. Tapia-Romero
Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
Felipe Daniel Tapia-Romero appeals his sentence and several terms of his supervised release. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm on all but one issue in this memorandum disposition. We address the remaining issue — whether the district court erred by declining to consider, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), the cost to society of a defendant’s term of imprisonment — in an accompanying opinion.
The sentence imposed by the district court was neither proeedurally erroneous nor substantively unreasonable. See United States v. Carty, 520 F.3d 984, 993 (9th Cir. 2008) (“[Ojnly a proeedurally erroneous or substantively unreasonable sentence will be set aside.”). That the district court, after considering all the relevant facts, chose to place more emphasis on Tapia-Romero’s recidivism than on facts that might be interpreted to reflect more favorably on Tapia-Romero merely shows that the court appropriately exercised its discretion. See id. (“The abuse of discretion standard applies to all sentencing decisions .... ”).
AFFIRMED.
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