Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Humberto GARCIA, also known as Humberto Garcia-Toscano, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-08-09
Citations: 436 F. App'x 357
Docket Number: No. 10-41145
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Humberto GARCIA, also known as Humberto Garcia-Toscano, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before WIENER, GARZA, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 436
Pages: 357–358

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Humberto GARCIA, also known as Humberto Garcia-Toscano, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 10-41145
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Aug. 9, 2011.
James Lee Turner, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
James Scott Sullivan, Esq., San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before WIENER, GARZA, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Defendant-Appellant Humberto Garcia was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana (count 1), possession with intent to distribute marijuana (counts 3 & 4), money laundering (count 5), and engaging in a monetary transaction with respect to property derived from illegal activities (counts 6, 7, and 8). Thereafter, we vacated Garcia's sentence and remanded for resentencing in light of the holding in United States v. Booker, 548 U.S. 220, 244, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005). United States v. Garcia-Toscano, 388 Fed.Appx. 414 (5th Cir.2010) (unpublished). On remand, the district court granted Garcia's objections to several sentencing enhancements. It sentenced Garcia at the bottom of the recalculated guidelines imprisonment range to concurrent 262-month terms of imprisonment as to counts 1, 3 and 4, to concurrent 240-month terms of imprisonment as to counts 5, 6, and 7, and to a concurrent 120-month term of imprisonment as to count 8. Garcia was ordered to serve concurrent five-year periods of supervised release, and, unlike the original sentence, no fine was imposed. The net effect of the district court's rulings was to reduce Garcia's total term of imprisonment by 98 months. Garcia gave timely notice of his appeal.
Garcia contends that the sentence imposed was substantively unreasonable because it resulted in an unwarranted sentencing disparity between his sentence and the sentence imposed on one of his code-fendants, and because the sentence failed to account adequately for his lack of a criminal history and other characteristics and the nature and circumstances of the offense. Properly calculated within-guidelines sentences are presumed to be reasonable. United States v. Diaz, 637 F.3d 592, 603 (5th Cir.2011). Garcia has failed to rebut this presumption. See id. The judgment 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.