Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Juan David SEGURA-LOPEZ, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-12-23
Citations: 358 F. App'x 557
Docket Number: No. 09-50229
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Juan David SEGURA-LOPEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before HIGGINBOTHAM, CLEMENT, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 358
Pages: 557–558

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Juan David SEGURA-LOPEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 09-50229
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Dec. 23, 2009.
Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Jacques Lawrence de la Mota, Delamota & Company Ltd., Del Rio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, CLEMENT, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Juan David Segura-Lopez appeals the sixty-month sentence he received after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. For the first time on appeal, he contends that the district court plainly erred in not awarding him a U.S.S.G. § 5C1.2 safety-valve reduction and in failing to impose a sentence below the statutory minimum. As the Government contends, the instant appeal is barred by the waiver-of-appeal provision in Segura-Lopez's plea agreement, which was knowing, voluntary, and enforceable. See United States v. Robinson, 187 F.3d 516, 517 (5th Cir.1999); United States v. Portillo, 18 F.3d 290, 292-93 (5th Cir.1994); Fed.R.Crim.P. ll(b)(l)(N).
Segura-Lopez's argument that the Government breached the plea agreement by failing to request a safety valve reduction fails because the Government was under no affirmative obligation to request such a reduction. In addition, he had two criminal history points. Thus he was statutorily ineligible to receive the safety valve reduction. U.S.S.G. § 5C1.2(a)(l). Segura-Lopez's claim that the Government engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by withholding unspecified information regarding his eligibility for safety valve consideration is wholly conclusional and is not cognizable. See Nichols v. Scott, 69 F.3d 1255, 1286 (5th Cir.1995) (28 U.S.C. § 2254 case).
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Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.