Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Daniel Gomez MELENDEZ, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-09-26
Citations: 540 F. App'x 375
Docket Number: No. 12-51195
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Daniel Gomez MELENDEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before WIENER, OWEN, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 540
Pages: 375–376

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Daniel Gomez MELENDEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 12-51195
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Sept. 26, 2013.
Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
John Andrew Kuchera, Waco, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before WIENER, OWEN, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Defendant-Appellant Daniel Gomez Melendez appeals the 150-month sentence and three-year term of supervised release that the district court imposed after he pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, namely cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). He argues that the district court violated Apprendi v. New Jersey, 580 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), when it sentenced him for possession with intent to distribute even though the factual basis supported a conviction for only simple possession of cocaine. Melendez also contends that six "special" conditions of supervised release must be deleted from the written judgment because they were not part of the sentence pronounced orally in court.
As Melendez did not object on Apprendi grounds in the district court, we review his claim for plain error only. See United States v. Rojas-Luna, 522 F.3d 502, 504 (5th Cir.2008). The district court did not violate Apprendi because Melendez's 150-month sentence did not exceed the 20-year statutory maximum for the offense for which he was convicted. See Apprendi, 530 U.S. at 490, 120 S.Ct. 2348; § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C).
We review Melendez's challenge to the conditions of supervised release contained in the written judgment for abuse of discretion. See United States v. Mudd, 685 F.3d 473, 480 (5th Cir.2012). The conditions of supervised release of which Melendez complains are not "special" conditions but are identical to those listed in the "mandatory" and "standard" sections of the Western District of Texas's general order of July 18, 2011, adopting conditions of probation and supervised release. Conditions that are regularly applied throughout a district are considered "standard," and "explicit reference to each and every standard condition of supervision is not essential to the defendant's right to be present at sentencing." United States v. Vega, 332 F.3d 849, 852-53 n. 8 (5th Cir.2003) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Accordingly, these conditions need not be orally pronounced, and the district court "may instead rely on the judgment to clarify that these standard conditions are indeed applicable to the case at hand." United States v. Torres-Aguilar, 352 F.3d 934, 936 (5th Cir.2003).
The judgment of the district court is 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.