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Parties Involved:
Elicio Menelao Triana-Herrera
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-10661

Summary Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

ELICIO MENELAO TRIANA-HERRERA,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Northern District of Texas

USDC No. 4:15-CR-44-1

Before DAVIS, JONES, and GRAVES, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Elicio Menelao Triana-Herrera (Triana) pleaded guilty of unlawful use 

of a counterfeit alien registration document, and the district court varied 

upward from the guidelines imprisonment range in sentencing him to a 20-

month term of imprisonment and to a three-year period of supervised release. 

Triana contends that the district court abused its discretion in overruling his 

objection to the substantive reasonableness of the above-guidelines sentence. 

 

* 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 29, 2016

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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He asserts that the district court gave too much weight to remote and unscored 

prior convictions and inadequate consideration to his personal history and 

characteristics. 

The district court’s sentence did not unreasonably fail to reflect the 

statutory sentencing factors. See United States v. Smith, 440 F.3d 704, 708 

(5th Cir. 2006). We will defer to the district court’s determination of the 

appropriate sentence. See United States v. Brantley, 537 F.3d 347, 349 (5th 

Cir. 2008). The judgment is AFFIRMED.

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