Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Feliciano ROJAS-BARRON, a.k.a. Felix Rojas, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-03-18
Citations: 512 F. App'x 993
Docket Number: No. 12-12309
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Feliciano ROJAS-BARRON, a.k.a. Felix Rojas, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before MARCUS, PRYOR and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 512
Pages: 993–994

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Feliciano ROJAS-BARRON, a.k.a. Felix Rojas, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 12-12309
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
March 18, 2013.
Yvette Rhodes, Donald L. Hansen, Robert E. O’Neill, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Tampa, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Tim Bower Rodriguez, Bower Rodriguez, PA, Tampa, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before MARCUS, PRYOR and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Feliciano Rojas-Barron appeals his sentence of 24 months of imprisonment following his pleas of guilty to reentering the United States illegally after deportation, 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2), and unlawful entry by an alien, id. § 1325(a)(1). Rojas-Barron argues, for the first time on appeal, that his sentence is procedurally unreasonable because the district court elicited an opinion about its proposed sentence from the government. We affirm.
The district court did not plainly err. A district court is expected, in fashioning an appropriate sentence, to "allow both parties to present arguments as to what they believe[] the appropriate sentence should be." Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 53, 128 S.Ct. 586, 598, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007). After the district court proposed to sentence Rojas-Barron to a term of imprisonment below the advisory guideline range that would run consecutive to a sentence imposed by a state court, the court reasonably elicited the opinion of the government about the proposed sentence. Rojas-Barron argues that the district court "sought to mete out a sentence that was agreeable to the government" and treated the opinion of the government as a sentencing factor, but the district court explained that it selected a sentence that "recognize[d] the existence of a significant state sentence!,] . the extent to which . service of that sentence contribute[d] to the satisfaction of the statutory purposes of sentencing!,] . and also . recogni[zed] . [the] transgression of . distinct federal interests."
We AFFIRM Rojas-Barroris sentence.