Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mario Alberto GARCIA-BALDERAS, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-07-14
Citations: 667 F. App'x 486
Docket Number: No. 15-41190 Summary Calendar
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mario Alberto GARCIA-BALDERAS, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before HIGGINBOTHAM, ELROD and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 667
Pages: 486–486

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mario Alberto GARCIA-BALDERAS, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 15-41190 Summary Calendar
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Date Filed: 07/14/2016
John Richard Berry, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Renata Ann Gowie, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Ap-pellee.
Marjorie A. Meyers, Federal Public Defender, Michael Lance Herman, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Scott Andrew Martin, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, ELROD and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Mario Alberto Garcia-Balderas appeals his convictions and sentences of being an alien illegally in the United States in possession of a firearm and of being a felon in possession of a firearm for which he was sentenced to 120 months of imprisonment on each count, to run concurrently with each other. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), (g)(5)(A); 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2).
Garcia-Balderas challenges the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) and (g)(5), arguing that the statute does not require a substantial effect on interstate commerce or, in the alternative, that the Government adduced insufficient evidence to show that the "mere movement" of the components of a firearm constituted a substantial effect on interstate or foreign commerce. As he acknowledges, his argument is foreclosed by our prior decisions holding that § 922(g) generally, and § 922(g)(1) in particular, is. a valid exercise of Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause. See United States v. Alcantar, 733 F.3d 143, 145-46 (5th Cir. 2013); United States v. Daugherty, 264 F.3d 513, 518 (5th Cir. 2001); United States v. Wallace, 889 F.2d 580, 583 (5th Cir. 1989); see also United States v. Baltazar-Lopez, 273 F.3d 1099 (5th Cir. 2001) (treating § 922(g)(5) as indistinguishable from § 922(g)(1)).
Garcia-Balderas also argues that his convictions and sentences on charges both of being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and of being a felon in possession of a firearm are multiplicitous and violate the Double Jeopardy Clause. See § 922(g)(1), (g)(5). As the Government concedes, the simultaneous charges under § 922(g)(1) and (g)(5), which arise from the same single incident of possession of firearms, violate the constitutional prohibition on multiple punishments for one offence. See United States v. Munoz-Romo, 989 F.2d 757, 759-60 (5th Cir. 1993).
We, therefore, VACATE the sentences and REMAND to the district court to vacate either of the convictions and resen-tence Garcia-Balderas on the remaining count.
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.