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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Javier Toshiro TOKUNAGA-FUJIGAKI, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 16-50468
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted December 14, 2017  Pasadena, California
    Filed December 22, 2017
    Emily J. Keifer, Janet Cabral, Helen H. Hong, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Office of the US Attorney, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee
    Michael Marks, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for Defendant-Appellant
    Before: REINHARDT, GILMAN, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
    
      
      The panel unanimously concludes that this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2),
    
    
      
      The Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman, United States Circuit Judge for the United States' Court 'of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Javier Tokunaga-Fujigaki appeals the sentence imposed upon remand because the district court’s oral pronouncement at sentencing did not include a term of supervised release, but the written judgment imposed a three-year term of supervised-release. Tokunaga-Fujigaki asserts on appeal that the oral pronouncement should control and, as a result, his sentence should not include a supervised release terra. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we reverse and remand.

The original sentence was fully vacated, and thus the original term of supervised release was also vacated. The district court’s oral pronouncement as correctly reported determines the correct sentence. It is well-settled that where there is a discrepancy between an unambiguous oral pronouncement of the sentence and the written judgment, the oral pronouncement controls. United States v. Munoz-Dela Rosa, 495 F.2d 253, 256 (9th Cir. 1974). Here, the district court’s oral pronouncement is unambiguous because it has only one reasonable reading, see United States v. Allen, 157 F.3d 661, 667-68 (9th Cir. 1998), and the district court’s omission of the supervised release term in the oral pronouncement does not lead to an absurd, irrational or illegal result, see Fenner v. United States Parole Comm’n, 251 F.3d 782, 786-87 (9th Cir. 2001) (holding that the exclusion of a statutorily-mandated parole term in a sentence rendered the sentence irrational, illegal, and ambiguous).

On remand, the district court shall strike the challenged supervised release term and conditions in the written judgment to conform to the oral pronouncement of sentence. United States v. Hernandez, 795 F.3d 1159, 1169 (9th Cir. 2015), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 136 S.Ct. 1204, 194 L.Ed.2d 210 (2016).

REVERSED and REMANDED with instructions. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3,