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Nature of Suit Code: 510
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Vacate Sentence
Cause of Action: 28:2255 Motion to Vacate / Correct Illegal Sentence

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MILTON ERNESTO FLORES-MANCIA,

Plaintiff,

CASE NO. 11cr2340 and

11cv2945-LAB

ORDER DENYING 28 U.S.C.

§ 2255 HABEAS MOTION

vs.

UNITED STATES,

Defendant.

Milton Ernesto Flores-Mancia pleaded guilty of being a deported alien found in the

United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. On December 8, 2011 he was sentencd to 18

months’ custody followed by three years’ supervised release. On December 14, he filed a

motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for a reduction in his sentence.

In his plea agreement, Flores-Mancia waived appeal or collateral attack unless he

was sentenced above the high end of the guideline range recommended by the government

as agreed in the plea agreement. Flores-Mancia also received the benefit of a fast-track

recommendation. 

The record shows the government kept its agreement, and recommended that FloresMancia be sentenced to 30 months, which was the low end of the guideline range the parties

agreed to. (See Docket no. 15 (Plea Agreement’s provisions regarding sentence

recommendations) at 2–3; Docket no. 23 (Government’s Sentencing Summary Chart,

recommending a sentence as agreed in the Plea Agreement).) Flores-Mancia was in fact

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sentenced well below the 30 months the government recommended. He therefore waived

this collateral attack.

Even if Flores-Mancia had not waived collateral attack, his motion would be denied

as meritless. It is a boilerplate motion, apparently circulating among prisoners, that requests

a reduction in sentence because the defendant is an alien subject to deportation. The motion

is not meritless because it is boilerplate, but because its contentions have no basis in fact

or law. First, are no similarly-situated U.S. citizens who are being punished less severely for

the crime to which Flores-Mancia pleaded guilty; by definition, this crime can only be

committed by aliens who were previously deported. Second, the argument that he is entitled

to a lower sentence because he is a deportable alien has been repeatedly rejected by this

and other courts as meritless. See, e.g., Patterson-Romo v. United States, 2012 WL

2060872 (S.D.Cal., June 7, 2012) (Gonzalez, J.); United States v. Beltran-Palafox, 2012 WL

899262 at *2 and n.14 (D.Kan., Mar. 16, 2012); Aguilar-Marroquin v. United States, 2011 WL

1344251 (S.D.Cal., Apr. 8, 2011) (Huff, J.); Rendon-Inzunza v. United States, 2010 WL

3076271 (S.D.Cal., Aug. 6, 2010) (Burns, J.).

The motion is DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: October 4, 2012

HONORABLE LARRY ALAN BURNS

United States District Judge

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