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Parties Involved:
Sotero Ramirez-Ballejo
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-40450

Summary Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

SOTERO RAMIREZ-BALLEJO,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Southern District of Texas

USDC No. 2:13-CR-934

Before REAVLEY, DENNIS, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Sotero Ramirez-Ballejo appeals the 42-month prison term imposed 

following his guilty plea conviction for illegal reentry. For the first time on 

appeal, he contends that the district court committed reversible plain error by 

imposing the 16-level enhancement of U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(i), based on his 

prior Texas conviction for possessing methamphetamine with intent to deliver,

when the Texas statute of conviction could encompass administering 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

July 7, 2015

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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controlled substance and giving away a controlled substance for no 

remuneration.

These arguments are foreclosed by our recent holdings in United States 

v. Martinez-Lugo, 782 F.3d 198, 204-05 (5th Cir. 2015), and United States v. 

Teran-Salas, 767 F.3d 453, 458-62 (5th Cir. 2014), cert. denied, 135 S. Ct. 1892 

(2015). Accordingly, Ramirez-Ballejo 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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