Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jonathan NAJERA-NAVARRETE, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-04-03
Citations: 599 F. App'x 169
Docket Number: No. 14-50929
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jonathan NAJERA-NAVARRETE, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before BENAVIDES, SOUTHWICK, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 599
Pages: 169–170

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jonathan NAJERA-NAVARRETE, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 14-50929
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
April 3, 2015.
Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Judy Fulmer Madewell, Assistant Federal Public Defender and Maureen Scott Franco, Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before BENAVIDES, SOUTHWICK, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Jonathan Najera-Navarrete pleaded guilty to illegal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(l)(2) and was sentenced to 46 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Najera-Navarrete challenges the substantive reasonableness of his sentence, arguing that his sentence is unreasonable because it is greater than necessary to achieve the sentencing goals of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). We review sentences for substantive reasonableness, in light of the § 3553(a) factors, under an abuse of discretion standard. Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 49-51, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007). A within-guidelines sentence is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness. See Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 347, 127 S.Ct. 2456, 168 L.Ed.2d 203 (2007). "The presumption is rebutted only upon a showing that the sentence does not account for a factor that should receive significant weight, it gives significant weight to an irrelevant or improper factor, or it represents a clear error of judgment in balancing sentencing factors." United States v. Cooks, 589 F.3d 173, 186 (5th Cir .2009).
Najera-Navarrete contends that U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2 is not empirically based and not subject to the presumption of reasonableness. He acknowledges that this argument has been rejected by this court in United States v. Mondragon-Santiago, 564 F.3d 357 (5th Cir.2009), but he seeks to preserve the argument for further review. He also argues that the presumption of reasonableness does not apply because § 2L1.2 effectively double counts a defendant's criminal history. This argument has been rejected in United States v. Duarte, 569 F.3d 528, 529-31 (5th Cir. 2009).
In challenging the substantive reasonableness of his sentence, Najera-Navar-rete argues that the sentence did not account for his personal history, his benign motive in reentering the United States, his cultural assimilation to this country, and his family circumstances. The district court rejected these arguments at sentencing. Najera-Navarrete's disagreement with the district court's weighing of the § 3558(a) factors is insufficient to rebut the presumption of reasonableness that attaches to a within-guidelines sentence. See Cooks, 589 F.3d at 186. Najera-Na-varrete has not demonstrated that the district court abused its discretion by sentencing him to a within-guidelines sentence of 46 months. See Gall, 552 U.S. at 51, 128 S.Ct. 586.
The judgment of the district court is 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.