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Parties Involved:
Francisco Tomas Reyes-Salazar
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-50812

Summary Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

FRANCISCO TOMAS REYES-SALAZAR,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Western District of Texas

USDC No. 3:14-CR-570-1

Before KING, JOLLY, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Francisco Tomas Reyes-Salazar (Reyes) appeals the sentence he received 

following his guilty plea conviction for illegal reentry, in violation of 8 U.S.C. 

§ 1326. Reyes argues that his within-guidelines 24-month sentence is 

substantively unreasonable because it was greater than necessary to satisfy 

the sentencing goals outlined in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). He asserts that the 

district court should have sentenced him below the guidelines range of 

* 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.

United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

FILED

March 20, 2015

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

 

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imprisonment because the unlawful reentry Guideline is not empirically based 

and effectively double counts a prior conviction and because his individual 

characteristics warranted a lower sentence.

The substantive reasonableness of a sentence is reviewed for an abuse of 

discretion. Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007). As Reyes concedes, 

his arguments regarding the reentry Guideline are foreclosed by this court’s 

precedent. See United States v. Duarte, 569 F.3d 528, 530-31 (5th Cir. 2009). 

Further, he has not rebutted the presumption of reasonableness that applies 

to his within-guidelines sentence. See United States v. Campos-Maldonado, 

531 F.3d 337, 338 (5th Cir. 2008); United States v. Gomez-Herrera, 523 F.3d 

554, 565-66 (5th Cir. 2008).

AFFIRMED.

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