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Parties Involved:
Martin Andrade-Mora
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-40673

Summary Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

MARTIN ANDRADE-MORA,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Southern District of Texas

USDC No. 2:15-CR-875-1

Before KING, DENNIS, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Martin Andrade-Mora appeals his thirty-month sentence for illegal 

reentry into the United States. He argues that his sentence is both 

procedurally and substantively unreasonable. Finding no error in the district 

court’s sentence, we affirm. 

First, Andrade-Mora challenges the district court’s assessment of an

eight-level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(B) based on his 1994

 

* 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

February 20, 2017

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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Washington conviction for delivery of a controlled substance as “patently 

unfair” because that conviction was too stale to receive criminal history points. 

Andrade-Mora does not meaningfully explain this argument or support it with 

authority, however, and he has therefore forfeited this issue. See United 

States v. Charles, 469 F.3d 402, 408 (5th Cir. 2006) (“Inadequately briefed 

issues are deemed abandoned.”). 

Second, Andrade-Mora contends that the presentence report (PSR) was 

“completely wrong and misleading” in its description of his 1994 Washington 

conviction because the state court departed downward in sentencing him and 

because the offense was assigned no criminal history points. This assertion is 

baseless, as the PSR provided the actual sentence imposed by the state court 

and noted that no history points were assigned for this offense. 

Third, Andrade-Mora maintains that he wrongly received criminal 

history points for his 2001 Washington conviction for unlawful possession of a 

firearm because the conviction took place more than fifteen years prior to the 

commission of the instant offense. This contention is plainly untrue, as 

Andrade-Mora committed the instant offense in 2015, less than fifteen years 

after his state conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm. 

Finally, Andrade-Mora argues that the district court erred in denying a 

downward variance. He notes that while the district court based its decision 

on his “extensive immigration history,” he only had two prior convictions for 

illegal reentry. We review Andrade-Mora’s sentence for reasonableness, under 

an abuse-of-discretion standard. See Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 

(2007). His within-guidelines sentence is entitled to a presumption of 

reasonableness. See United States v. Ruiz, 621 F.3d 390, 398 (5th Cir. 2010). 

The record reflects that the district court made an individualized assessment 

of the facts of the case in light of the sentencing factors enumerated in 18 

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U.S.C. § 3553(a). See Gall, 552 U.S. at 49-50. This individualized assessment 

properly included consideration of Andrade-Mora’s prior convictions. See

§ 3553(a)(1), (2); U.S.S.G. § 1B1.4. We find no abuse of discretion in the district 

court’s refusal to apply a downward variance in imposing a sentence for

Andrade-Mora’s third illegal reentry conviction. 

Accordingly, the district court’s sentence is AFFIRMED.

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