Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Angel TORRES-GUARDADO, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-12-19
Citations: 502 F. App'x 654
Docket Number: No. 09-36095
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Angel TORRES-GUARDADO, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before: TALLMAN and WATFORD, Circuit Judges, and GLEASON, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 502
Pages: 654–655

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Angel TORRES-GUARDADO, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 09-36095.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Dec. 5, 2012.
Filed Dec. 19, 2012.
Lori Anne Harper Suek, Assistant U.S., USBI-Office of the U.S. Attorney, Billings, MT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Jose Angel Torres-Guardado, Manchester, KY, pro se.
Before: TALLMAN and WATFORD, Circuit Judges, and GLEASON, District Judge.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Federal prisoner Jose Angel Torres-Guardado appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion. At issue is whether appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to appeal the inadequate factual basis for Torres-Guardado's Rule 11 guilty plea to the charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, and we affirm.
Analyzing Torres-Guardado's ineffective assistance claim under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), we agree with the district court's decision that Torres-Guar-dado has failed to demonstrate that his Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated. Specifically, Torres-Guardado has not established that he suffered prejudice as a result of his counsel's failure to appeal the inadequate factual basis for his guilty plea. Documents produced by the government in discovery show that Torres-Guardado purchased drugs from a co-conspirator in Denver. Torres-Guardado also admitted to the magistrate judge that he did not manufacture the drugs himself. Based on the entire record, Torres-Guar-dado has failed to show a reasonable probability that but for the alleged Rule 11 error he would not have entered the guilty plea. See United States v. Dominguez Benitez, 542 U.S. 74, 83, 124 S.Ct. 2333, 159 L.Ed.2d 157 (2004); United States v. Monzon, 429 F.3d 1268, 1271-72 (9th Cir.2005).
AFFIRMED.
The Honorable Sharon L. Gleason, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.
. An ineffective assistance of counsel claim is analyzed under the two-part test developed in Strickland. The "defendant must show that counsel's performance was deficient" and "the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense."' Strickland, 466 U.S. at 687, 104 S.Ct. 2052. The court may address these prongs in either order and it need not analyze both parts if the defendant cannot establish either prong. Id. U.S. 466 at 697, 104 S.Ct. 2052.