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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

JORGE DELGADILLO-ARANDA,

Petitioner/Defendant,

CASE NO. 11CR1549-LAB/

11CV2535-LAB

ORDER DENYING 28 U.S.C.

§ 2255 HABEAS MOTION

vs.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Respondent/Plaintiff.

Jorge Delgadillo-Aranda is currently serving an 18-month sentence for being a

deported alien found in the United States. Now before the Court is his habeas petition

brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, through which he seeks a sentence reduction. He

seeks the reduction on the ground that, due to his alien status, he is ineligible for a one-year

sentence reduction through a drug program, or early release into a halfway house. He

argues that deprivation of these benefits or privileges due to his alien status violates his Fifth

and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and equal protection. This is a familiar

claim that aliens make in federal habeas petitions, using what appears to be a form pleading,

and the Court has consistently rejected it. See Rendon-Inzunza v. United States, 2010 WL

3076271 (S.D. Cal. 2010); Lizarraga-Lopez v. United States, 89 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (S.D. Cal.

2000). 

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Furthermore, Delgadillo-Aranda pleaded guilty and, as part of his plea agreement,

waived appeal, provided the Court did not sentence him above the high end of the guideline

range recommended by the government pursuant to the plea agreement. In fact, the Court

sentenced him to significantly less than even the low end of the guideline range he agreed

to in the plea agreement, and which the government recommended. The plea agreement

contemplates a guideline range of 33 to 41 months. See Plea Agreement (Docket no. 15,

at 2); Sentencing Summary Chart (Docket no. 21, at 1, incorporating terms of plea

agreement regarding guidelines and recommending sentence of 33 months). The Court

sentenced him to 18 months, plus three years’ supervised release. Collateral attack was

therefore waived.

The petition is DENIED. The Court also DENIES him a certificate of appealability. 

See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: July 9, 2012

HONORABLE LARRY ALAN BURNS

United States District Judge

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