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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jorge BACIO-GONZALES, also known as Jorge Bacio-Gonzalez, Defendant-Appellant
    No. 16-40663 Summary Calendar
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Filed February 27, 2018
    Carmen Castillo Mitchell, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee
    Marjorie A. Meyers, Federal Public Defender, Philip G. Gallagher, Michael Lance Herman, Assistant Federal Public Defenders, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant
    Before JOLLY, SMITH, and GRAVES, Circuit Judges.
   ON PETITION FOR PANEL REHEARING

PER CURIAM:

The petition for panel rehearing is GRANTED. We WITHDRAW our prior opinion, United States v. Bacio-Gonzales, 690 Fed.Appx. 193 (5th Cir. 2017), VACATE our prior judgment affirming the sentence imposed by the district court, and substitute the following opinion.

Jorge Bacio-Gonzales pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. The presen-tence report applied a 16-level “crime of violence” enhancement pursuant to § 2L1.2(b)(l)(A)(ii) of the 2015 Sentencing Guidelines based on Bacio-Gonzales’ prior conviction for burglary of a habitation under Texas Penal Code § 30.02(a). The district court overruled Bacio-Gonzales’ objections and sentenced him to 36 months in prison and a three-year term of supervised release. On appeal, Bacio-Gonzales challenged only the length of his prison sentence, arguing that the Texas burglary statute is not divisible and that not every violation of § 30.02(a) constitutes a “crime of violence” under the Guidelines. In our prior opinion, we concluded that our decision in United States v. Uribe, 838 F.3d 667 (5th Cir. 2016), foreclosed this argument and affirmed. United States v. Bacio-Gonzales, 690 Fed.Appx. 193 (5th Cir. 2017).

Bacio-Gonzales then filed a petition for panel rehearing, which he asked us to hold in abeyance pending resolution of the petition for en banc rehearing in United States v. Herrold. Days ago, we issued a decision in Herrold, holding that the Texas burglary statute is indivisible and categorically overbroad in relation to the federal generic definition of burglary. United States v. Herrold, No. 14-11317, 883 F.3d 517, 519-20, 2018 WL 948373, at *1 (5th Cir. Feb. 20, 2018) (en banc); see also id. 883 F.3d at 528-30, 2018 WL 948373 at *8 (recognizing thatthfeholdingoverrules Uribe).

Bacio-Gonzales’ attorney, the Federal Public Defender, has filed a letter advising that this case is now moot, despite the outcome in Herrold, because Bacio-Gon-zales: (1) has completed his term of imprisonment and been released from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons; (2) is now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awaiting deportation; and (3) has not challenged on appeal any aspect of his term of supervised release or sought any other form of relief that this court can now grant. We agree. Cf. United States v. Heredia-Holguin, 823 F.3d 337, 342-43 & n.3 (5th Cir. 2016) (en banc) (holding that an appeal is not moot where a defendant has completed his prison sentence, been deported, and seeks some form of relief related to an unexpired term of supervised release rather than merely challenging the “term of imprisonment” itself).

Accordingly, this appeal is DISMISSED as MOOT. 
      
       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.