Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Guadalupe GAETA-DUARTE, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-01-20
Citations: 86 F. App'x 327
Docket Number: No. 02-50236; D.C. No. CR-01-02435-BTM
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Guadalupe GAETA-DUARTE, Defendant—Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 86
Pages: 327–327

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Guadalupe GAETA-DUARTE, Defendant—Appellant.
No. 02-50236.
D.C. No. CR-01-02435-BTM.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 3, 2003.
Decided Jan. 20, 2004.
William P. Cole, USSD-Office of the U.S. Attorney, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Lori Schoenberg, FDCA-Federal Defender’s of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before PREGERSON, TASHIMA, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Defendant Guadalupe Gaeta-Duarte appeals the sentence imposed upon him for violating 8 U.S.C. § 1326, attempted reentry into the United States after deportation. He was sentenced to 77 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release. The calculation of that sentence by the district court was based in part upon a 16-level enhancement imposed because of the nature of a prior felony conviction. He argues that the enhancement was erroneous because his prior convictions do not qualify as a "crime of violence" under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2 (2002).
Gaeta-Duarte's conviction under CaLPenal Code § 288(a) was a "crime of violence" under that guideline and thus the 16-level sentence enhancement was appropriate, as we recently held in United States v. Medina-Maella, 351 F.3d 944 (9th Cir.2003). The sentence imposed by the district court was not erroneously calculated.
AFFIRMED.
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