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Case: 10-40613     Document: 00511946499         Page: 1     Date Filed: 08/06/2012

            IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                     FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT  United States Court of Appeals
                                                     Fifth Circuit

                                                                            FILED
                                                                           August 6, 2012

                                       No. 10-40613                        Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                Clerk

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                  Plaintiff-Appellee
v.

OSCAR FLORES HERNANDEZ also known as Oscar Flores,

                                                  Defendant-Appellant

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Southern District of Texas
                              USDC No. 5:10-CR-501

Before REAVLEY, SMITH, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
        Defendant-Appellant Oscar Flores Hernandez appeals the sentence
imposed after he pleaded guilty to illegal reentry, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326.
Hernandez contends that the district court erred in categorizing his prior
conviction for first degree criminal sexual conduct under MINN. STAT. ANN.
§ 609.342(1)(e)(i) as a “crime of violence” for purposes of U.S.S.G.
§ 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii).
        We AFFIRM.

        *
         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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.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.
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                                         No. 10-40613

      The Minnesota judgment identifies the statute of conviction as MINN.
STAT. ANN. § 609.342(1)(e), and the charging instrument specifies the offense as
a violation of § 609.342(1)(e)(i). See United States v. Carbajal-Diaz, 508 F.3d
804, 807-10 (5th Cir. 2007). Section 609.342(1)(e)(i) reads:
     A person who engages in sexual penetration with another person . . .
     is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree if any of the
     following circumstances exists:
     (...)
     (e) the actor causes personal injury to the complainant, and either of
     the following circumstances exist:
     (i) the actor uses force or coercion to accomplish sexual
     penetration . . . .
MINN. STAT. ANN. § 609.342(1)(e) (West 1995).1 The Guidelines’ notes for
§ 2L1.2 enumerate types of offense that count as “crime[s] of violence.”2 “[E]ven
if an enumerated offense does not include an element of force, it remains a crime
of violence precisely because it is enumerated.” United States v. Fierro-
Reyna,466 F.3d 324, 327 (5th Cir. 2002). Among the enumerated offenses are
“forcible sex offenses (including where consent to the conduct is not given or is
not legally valid, such as where consent to the conduct is involuntary,
incompetent, or coerced) . . . .”3 Because that language encompasses every
realistic way one could violate § 609.342(1)(e)(i), we hold that a § 609.342(1)(e)(i)
offense is a “crime of violence” for purposes of U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2. See United
States v. Hernandez-Galvan, 632 F.3d 192, 196-97 (5th Cir. 2011).
      The district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED.

      1
        We use the Minnesota statute in effect on June 23, 1995, the date Hernandez
committed the Minnesota offense.
      2
          U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2, application note 1(B)(iii) (Nov. 1, 2009).
      3
          Id.

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