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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Salvador Viramontes-Rodriguez
Appellant

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 09-50934

Summary Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

SALVADOR VIRAMONTES-RODRIGUEZ,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Western District of Texas

USDC No. 3:09-CR-1891-1

Before DAVIS, SMITH and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

*

Salvador Viramontes-Rodriguez (Viramontes) pleaded guilty to illegal

reentry into the United States following deportation. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a).

Viramontes maintains that his 30-month sentence, which was below the

properly calculated guidelines range, is substantively unreasonable.

Viramontes’s assertion that his sentence is unreasonable is conclusory and

unsupported by legal analysis. An appellate court is not required to search the

record to find the legal basis for an issue. United States. v. Brace, 145 F.3d 247,

United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

F I L E D

June 11, 2010

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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.

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255 (5th Cir. 1998) (en banc). Because Viramontes is represented by counsel on

appeal, his brief is not entitled to liberal construction. See Beasley v. McCotter,

798 F.2d 116, 118 (5th Cir. 1986). Issues must be briefed to be preserved. FED.

R. APP. P. 28(a)(9). Consequently, given that Viramontes’s only issue for appeal

has not been preserved, we do not consider it. Moreover, nothing in the briefs

or the record gives us any reason to believe that the below guideline sentence is

unreasonable.

AFFIRMED.

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