Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Juan Angel GARCIA-LEMUS, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-01-28
Citations: 509 F. App'x 324
Docket Number: No. 12-40353
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Juan Angel GARCIA-LEMUS, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before JONES, DENNIS and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 509
Pages: 324–325

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Juan Angel GARCIA-LEMUS, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 12-40353
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Jan. 28, 2013.
Renata Ann Gowie, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Marjorie A. Meyers, Federal Public Defender, Laura Fletcher Leavitt, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before JONES, DENNIS and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Appellant, Juan Angel Garcia-Lemus ("Garcia-Lemus") pled guilty to being an alien found in the United States after deportation and having been convicted of a felony. 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(1). He was represented by a Federal Public Defender and was sentenced to a term of 24 months imprisonment followed by a three year supervised release term. He made no objection to the sentence in the trial court. On appeal, he challenges only the term of supervised release.
We review his appeal under the plain error standard. Fed. R.Crim. Pro. 52(b); United States v. Hernandez-Guevara, 162 F.3d 863, 870 (5th Cir.1998). His issues, centered on the proposition that imposing supervised release on a deportable alien constitutes an upward departure, are now foreclosed by this court's recent decision in United States v. Dominguez-Alvarado, 695 F.3d 324, 329 (5th Cir.2012). The court committed no error, much less plain error, in failing to treat the supervised release term as an upward departure in light of the new guideline § 5Dl.l(c) (stating that a term of supervised release should not "ordinarily" be imposed on a removable alien). Id. The final sentence, imposed within the guidelines range, is presumptively reasonable.
There remains only the question whether the district court's failure to explain reasons for imposing supervised release merits the relief of resentencing under the plain error standard. We hold it does not. The sentencing hearing here was perfunctory, punctuated mainly by the government's reminder that Garcia-Lemus has a criminal record including 11 prior convictions and 2 prior illegal reentries at times when he was already serving supervised release terms. Garcia-Lemus sought mercy as to the term of imprisonment only. Garcia-Lemus make no attempt to demonstrate why this technical omission, if error at all, affected his substantial rights or, if left uncorrected, would seriously affect the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings. Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 135, 129 S.Ct. 1423, 173 L.Ed.2d 266 (2009). No plain error is shown.
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.