Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Miguel Angel CHAVEZ-SAUCEDO, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-08-04
Citations: 667 F. App'x 852
Docket Number: No. 15-11216 Summary Calendar
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Miguel Angel CHAVEZ-SAUCEDO, Defendant-Appellant
Judges: Before KING, DENNIS, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 667
Pages: 852–852

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Miguel Angel CHAVEZ-SAUCEDO, Defendant-Appellant
No. 15-11216 Summary Calendar
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Date Filed: 08/04/2016
Timothy W. Funnell, Attorney, Fort Worth, TX, James Wesley Hendrix, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Dallas, TX, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Miguel Angel Chavez-Saucedo, Big Spring, TX, Pro Se.
Before KING, DENNIS, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Miguel Angel Chavez-Saucedo pleaded guilty to being an alien who had illegally reentered this country. The district court varied upward from the applicable guidelines sentencing range and sentenced Chavez to 40 months of imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release. Chavez now appeals his sentence as being substantively unreasonable. He argues that the upward variance was based on his criminal history, which he considers to be unremarkable, and the high number of his prior removals, which he asserts is not extraordinary in illegal-reentry cases. He also argues that his criminal history and his prior removals were already taken into account in the calculation of his guidelines imprisonment range.
Sentences, whether inside or outside the Guidelines, are reviewed for reasonableness in light of the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors. Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007). A sentence is unreasonable if it "(1) does not account for a factor that should have received significant weight, (2) gives significant weight to an irrelevant or improper factor, or (3) represents a clear error of judgment in balancing the sentencing factors." United States v. Chandler, 732 F.3d 434, 437 (5th Cir. 2013) (internal quotation and citations omitted).
The record reflects that the district court considered Chavez's mitigating arguments, but appropriately relied on several § 3553(a) factors in determining that an above-guideline sentence was warranted. Those factors included Chavez's criminal history and characteristics, the need to provide adequate deterrence to his further recidivism, and the need to protect the public from his further crimes. The district court's decision to vary 19 months above the advisory guidelines range was based on permissible factors that advanced the objectives set forth in § 3553(a). Further, the extent of the variance was not significant compared to other more substantial variances affirmed by the court. See United States v. Brantley, 537 F.3d 347, 349-50 (5th Cir. 2008); United States v. Lopez-Velasquez, 526 F.3d 804, 807 (5th Cir. 2008).
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.