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Date Created: 2024-05-01 18:00:35.704338+00
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Case: 23-10977            Document: 57-1         Page: 1      Date Filed: 05/01/2024

           United States Court of Appeals
                for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                             United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                      Fifth Circuit
                                    No. 23-10977
                                  Summary Calendar                                  FILED
                                  ____________                                     May 1, 2024
                                                                               Lyle W. Cayce
United States of America,                                                           Clerk

                                                                    Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                          versus

Damien Datrion Joiner,

                                            Defendant—Appellant.
                   ______________________________

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Northern District of Texas
                             USDC No. 1:23-CR-11-1
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Before Higginson, Ho, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam: *
       Damien Datrion Joiner appeals the 57-month sentence imposed
following his conviction for possession of a firearm after a felony conviction.
He argues that the district court reversibly erred in calculating his advisory
guidelines range by classifying his prior conviction under Texas Penal Code
§ 22.02(a)(2) as the enumerated felony crime of violence offense of

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       *
           This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-10977       Document: 57-1       Page: 2    Date Filed: 05/01/2024

                                 No. 23-10977

aggravated assault under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, which incorporates by reference
U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2’s definition of a crime of violence. He argues that Borden
v. United States, 593 U.S. 420 (2021), overruled United States v. Guillen-
Alvarez, 489 F.3d 197, 200-01 (2007), and that his § 22.02(a)(2) offense
therefore no longer qualifies as the enumerated offense of aggravated assault.
Borden, however, addressed the elements clause of the Armed Career
Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), not the enumerated-offense clause, and is
thus distinguishable from both Guillen-Alvarez and this case. See 593 U.S. at
423-24; 489 F.3d at 200-01. Joiner’s challenge fails.
       Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment and DISMISS as moot the
Government’s alternative motion for an extension to file its brief.

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