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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mario CORTEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 06-40727
    Summary Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    May 2, 2007.
    James Lee Turner, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for PlaintiffAppellee.
    Marjorie A. Meyers, Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before DAVIS, BARKSDALE, and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Mario Cortez appeals the 70-month term of imprisonment imposed after his guilty plea to taking a vehicle by force, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119. Cortez claims the district court reversibly erred by imposing a Guidelines sentence without considering his troubled and violent youth in the light of the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).

After United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), sentences are reviewed only for unreasonableness; nevertheless, a district court has a duty to consider the § 3553(a) factors as well as a duty to correctly determine the applicable Guidelines range. E.g., United States v. Mares, 402 F.3d 511, 518-19 (5th Cir.) cert. denied, 546 U.S. 828, 126 S.Ct. 43, 163 L.Ed.2d 76 (2005). If, in the exercise of discretion, the district court imposes a sentence within a properly calculated Guidelines range, little explanation is required, and this court will infer that the district court considered all of the factors for a fair sentence set for in the Guidelines. Id. at 519. Given the deference due the district court’s discretion under the Booker regime, “it will be rare for a reviewing court to say such a sentence is ‘unreasonable’ ”. Id.

The record reflects that the district court considered the relevant statutory sentencing factors. Cortez has not shown that the sentence was unreasonable or that this court should not defer to the district court’s determinations at sentencing. Id.

AFFIRMED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.