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Parties Involved:
Pablo Cortes
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-40886

Summary Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

PABLO CORTES,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Southern District of Texas

USDC No. 1:14-CR-18

Before WIENER, HIGGINSON, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Defendant-Appellant Pablo Cortes pleaded guilty to unlawful presence 

in the United States after removal following an aggravated felony conviction. 

In determining Cortes’s sentence, the district court imposed a 16-level

enhancement, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(i), based on Cortes’s 2012 

Texas conviction for possession with intent to deliver more than 4 but less than 

 

* 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

July 27, 2015

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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200 grams of methamphetamine in violation of Texas Health & Safety Code § 

481.112(d).

Cortes contends that his prior conviction was not a drug trafficking 

offense because the conviction could have been imposed for mere 

administration of a controlled substance and because delivery under § 481.112

encompasses gifts or unremunerated transfers. Both of these issues are 

foreclosed. See United States v. Rodriguez-Bernal, 783 F.3d 1002, 1003-04, 

1008 (5th Cir. 2015), petition for cert. filed (June 30, 2015) (No. 15-5047); 

United States v. Teran-Salas, 767 F.3d 453, 460-62 (5th Cir. 2014), cert. denied,

135 S. Ct. 1892 (2015); see also United States v. Martinez-Lugo, 782 F.3d 198, 

200-05 (5th Cir. 2015), petition for cert. filed (June 19, 2015) (No. 14-10355).

AFFIRMED.

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