Opinion ID: 4406570
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Heading: Unadjudicated Juvenile Incidents

Text: The information underlying Quintanar’s unadjudicated juvenile assault incidents was based on offense reports from the Fort Worth Police Department. Quintanar argues that the information lacked sufficient indicia of reliability because the complainants’ accounts were not corroborated and because police officers are generally motivated to create actionable cases. We review criminal sentences for reasonableness using an abuse of discretion standard. Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007). In making that determination, we review the district court’s application of the Sentencing Guidelines de novo and its factual findings for clear error. United States v. Hinojosa, 749 F.3d 407, 411 (5th Cir. 2014). Facts used to determine a sentence must be supported “by a preponderance of the relevant and sufficiently reliable evidence.” United States v. Alaniz, 726 F.3d 586, 619 (5th Cir. 2013) (quoting United States v. Betancourt, 422 F.3d 240, 247 (5th Cir. 2005)). “Generally, a PSR ‘bears sufficient indicia of reliability to be considered as evidence by the sentencing judge in making factual determinations.’” United States v. Fuentes, 775 F.3d 213, 220 (5th Cir. 2014) (per curiam) (quoting United States v. Harris, 702 F.3d 226, 230 (5th Cir. 2012)). Information from police reports may be sufficiently reliable. Id. Further, a district court may consider hearsay when making its determinations. United States v. Nava, 624 F.3d 226, 231 (5th Cir. 2010). “The defendant bears the burden of presenting rebuttal evidence to demonstrate that the information in the PSR is inaccurate or materially untrue.” United States v. Cervantes, 706 F.3d 603, 620–21 (5th Cir. 2013) (brackets omitted) (quoting United States v. Scher, 601 F.3d 408, 413 (5th Cir. 2010) (per curiam)). 4 Case: 17-11244 Document: 00514994719 Page: 5 Date Filed: 06/13/2019 No. 17-11244 Here, the information in the PSR was drawn from Fort Worth Police Department offense reports and included detailed information about the alleged assaults. The offense reports described each complainant’s account of the assault as well as what the officers viewed upon arriving at the scene. Although Quintanar objected to the district court’s findings as a violation of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights, he did not claim the facts were inaccurate nor did he provide any rebuttal evidence to demonstrate the information in the PSR was unreliable. Thus, the district court did not err. The district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED. 5