Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Miguel Adrian GONZALEZ-VILLEGAS, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-10-18
Citations: 398 F. App'x 70
Docket Number: No. 10-50173
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Miguel Adrian GONZALEZ-VILLEGAS, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before DAVIS, SMITH, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 398
Pages: 70–71

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Miguel Adrian GONZALEZ-VILLEGAS, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 10-50173
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Oct. 18, 2010.
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, Henry Joseph Bemporad, Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before DAVIS, SMITH, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Miguel Gonzalez-Villegas pleaded guilty of attempted illegal reentry into the United States and making a false claim to United States citizenship. The district court imposed a within-guidelines sentence that included concurrent terms of 80 months of imprisonment for illegal reentry and 36 months for making a false claim. Gonzalez-Villegas contends that the sentence is substantively unreasonable, because it is greater than necessary to accomplish the sentencing goals of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).
Gonzalez-Villegas concedes that the plain error standard of review is applicable under circuit precedent, because he did not object to his sentence in the district court, see United States v. Peltier, 505 F.3d 389, 391-92 (5th Cir.2007), but he wishes to preserve for further review the issue "whether a failure to object to the reasonableness of a sentence upon its imposition requires plain error review." "[A] sentence within a properly calculated Guideline range is presumptively reasonable." United States v. Alonzo, 435 F.3d 551, 554 (5th Cir.2006).
Gonzalez-Villegas argues that his guideline range was too severe, because the application of U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2 effectively resulted in the double-counting of his criminal history; his prior conviction for illegal reentry weighed too heavily in the calculation of his guideline range; the range overstated the seriousness of his illegal reentry offense; and the range faded properly to account for his personal history and characteristics and benign motiva tion in attempting to reenter. "[T]he sentencing judge is in a superior position to find facts and judge their import under § 3553(a) with respect to a particular defendant." United States v. Campos-Maldonado, 531 F.3d 337, 339 (5th Cir.2008). Gonzalez-Villegas has not established that his sentence is unreasonable. See United States v. Duarte, 569 F.3d 528, 529-31 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 130 S.Ct. 378, 175 L.Ed.2d 231 (2009); United States v. Gomez-Herrera, 523 F.3d 554, 565-66 (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 dle limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.