Court Opinion

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                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                            FILED
                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT                             DEC 06 2010

                                                                          MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                            U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                        No. 09-50567

              Plaintiff - Appellee,              D.C. No. 3:08-cr-02788-DMS-1

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM*
JOSE LUIS MURILLO-PEREZ,

              Defendant - Appellant.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Southern District of California
                     Dana M. Sabraw, District Judge, Presiding

                     Argued and Submitted November 2, 2010
                              Pasadena, California

Before: SCHROEDER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and JARVEY, District
Judge.**

       Jose Murrillo-Perez appeals his jury conviction for being a deported alien

found in the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. He also challenges his

sentence.

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
       **
            The Honorable John A. Jarvey, United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Iowa, sitting by designation.
      The district court did not err in admitting evidence that Murillo-Perez was

permanently barred from reentering the United States. The custodian of the

documentary evidence was qualified to authenticate it, and, at the request of the

petitioner, the description of the underlying conviction was deleted. The evidence

did not remove from the jury’s consideration the issue of whether he had ever

applied for reentry, and indeed there was no objection on that ground.

      The admission of the certificate of non-existence of record (“CNR”) was

harmless error because even without the CNR, there was overwhelming evidence

that Murillo-Perez did not get permission to reenter the United States. There was

testimony from the custodian that she could not find an I-212 document or filing

fee in Murillo-Perez’s A-file or C.L.A.I.M.S. database to indicate that Murillo-

Perez had applied to reenter. See United States v. Orozco-Acosta, 607 F.3d 1156,

1162 (9th Cir. 2010).

      The evidence supporting a jury finding of alienage was sufficient. In

addition to the prior deportation order, the government introduced the defendant’s

own sworn statement in the 1994 deportation hearing that he was an alien.

Additionally, there was evidence that he had been subsequently deported twice to

Mexico, in July 1998 and June 2002.

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      With respect to sentencing, the district court did take into account the age of

the convictions and expressly determined that the 84 months’ sentence was fair and

just, in light of the old age of the prior convictions and the continued criminal

activity. The case, therefore, is unlike United States v. Amezcua-Vasquez, 567 F.3d

1050 (9th Cir. 2009), where the staleness of the prior conviction was not

considered.

      AFFIRMED.

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