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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Manuel Uresti-Garza
Appellant

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-40903

Summary Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

MANUEL URESTI-GARZA,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Southern District of Texas

USDC No. 7:13-CR-1497-1

Before KING, CLEMENT, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Manuel Uresti-Garza appealed the 41-month sentence imposed following 

his guilty plea conviction for being found in the United States after previous 

deportation. For the first time on appeal, he contends that the district court 

plainly erred in imposing a 16-level enhancement under U.S.S.G. 

§ 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(i) based on his 2011 Nebraska conviction for distribution of a 

 

* 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

August 18, 2015

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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controlled substance because the statute of conviction, Nebraska Revised 

Statute § 28-416(1)(a) (2010), does not require proof of commercial activity.

This argument is foreclosed by our recent holdings in United States v. 

Martinez-Lugo, 782 F.3d 198, 204-05 (5th Cir. 2015), petition for cert. filed

(June 19, 205) (No. 14-10355), and United States v. Rodriguez-Bernal, 783 F.3d 

1002, 1003, 1008 (5th Cir. 2015). Accordingly, Uresti-Garza has shown no clear 

or obvious error with regard to his sentence. See Puckett v. United States, 556 

U.S. 129, 135 (2009).

AFFIRMED. 

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