Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jose SOSA-ALCIDES, also known as Jose Alcides-Sosa, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-09-15
Citations: 697 F. App'x 385
Docket Number: No. 16-41537 Summary Calendar
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jose SOSA-ALCIDES, also known as Jose Alcides-Sosa, Defendant-Appellant
Judges: Before JOLLY, OWEN, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 697
Pages: 385–386

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jose SOSA-ALCIDES, also known as Jose Alcides-Sosa, Defendant-Appellant
No. 16-41537 Summary Calendar
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Filed September 15, 2017
John A. Reed, Carmen Castillo Mitchell, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee
Marjorie A. Meyers, Federal Public Defender, Michael Lance Herman, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant
Before JOLLY, OWEN, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Jose Sosa-Alcides appeals the 37-month within-guidelines sentence imposed on his guilty plea conviction for illegal reentry after removal. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). Finding no error by the district court, we affirm. See United States v. Cisneros-Gutierrez, 517 F.3d 751, 764 (5th Cir. 2008).
The district court properly overruled Sosa-Alcides's sole objection to the calculation of the guidelines sentencing range, which was that it was error to enhance the base offense level by eight levels under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(l)(C) (2015) on the ground that Sosa-Alcides had 2010 and 2012 California felony convictions for receipt of a stolen motor vehicle and that each conviction constituted an aggravated felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G). Sosa-Alcides was sentenced to more than one year in prison on each of those convictions under California Penal Code § 496d(a), which makes it a crime for anyone to buy or receive "any motor vehicle . that has been stolen or that has been obtained in any manner constituting theft or extortion, knowing the property to be stolen or obtained."
As Sosa-Alcides acknowledges, we have held that a conviction under a substantially similar statute, Texas Penal Code § 31.03, constitutes a conviction for an aggravated felony theft under § 1101(a)(43)(G). See United States v. Rodriguez-Salazar, 768 F.3d 437, 438 (5th Cir. 2014). Sosa-Alcides suggests, however, that Martinez v. Mukasey, 519 F.3d 532, 541 (5th Cir. 2008), controls the disposition of this appeal. He suggests further that his argument is not foreclosed because Rodriguez-Salazar did not specifically address § 496d(a), which Sosa-Alcides believes not to fit within the generic crime of theft because the statute criminalizes conduct that may involve the victim's consent.
We conclude that Rodriguez-Salazar, 768 F.3d at 437-38, resolves the issue at hand in the Government's favor. In Rodriguez-Salazar, we emphasized that the theft question before us, namely, the eight-level offense enhancement for a violation of § 31.03, had not been before us in Martinez, which addressed whether a conviction under the federal bank fraud statute qualified as an aggravated felony. Rodriguez-Salazar, 768 F.3d at 438.
AFFIRMED.
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.