Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2017-09-14 20:01:06.6225+00
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FILED
                             NOT FOR PUBLICATION
                                                                                SEP 14 2017
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                         MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                              U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                          No.    16-50198

              Plaintiff-Appellee,                  D.C. No.
                                                   3:15-cr-00596-BEN-4
 v.

DAVID NAVARRETE,                                   MEMORANDUM*

              Defendant-Appellant.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Southern District of California
                    Roger T. Benitez, District Judge, Presiding

                       Argued and Submitted August 10, 2017
                               Pasadena, California

Before: REINHARDT, KOZINSKI, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.

      “We review the district court’s interpretation of the [U.S. Sentencing]

Guidelines de novo, the district court’s application of the Guidelines to the facts of

the case for abuse of discretion, and the district court’s factual findings for clear

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
error.” United States v. Treadwell, 593 F.3d 990, 999 (9th Cir. 2010). We have

jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

      1. The record establishes that the district court considered the enumerated

factors in the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 when assessing whether Navarrete

should receive a sentence reduction for playing a minor role in the offense. See

U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2, cmt. n.3(C) (2015). Defense counsel listed all five factors in the

guidelines commentary, and the district court stated that it had “considered all of

the application notes of 3B1.2.” “We assume that district judges know the law and

understand their obligation to consider all of the [sentencing] factors.” United

States v. Carty, 520 F.3d 984, 992 (9th Cir. 2008). “The district court need not tick

off each of the [sentencing] factors to show that it has considered them.” Id. The

district court did not improperly rely solely upon Navarrete’s “essential role” in the

conspiracy, and did not abuse its discretion in denying a minor role sentence

reduction.

      2. Navarrete’s sentencing chart and the base offense level used by the

district court establish that he was not sentenced as a direct money launderer, and

there is no doubt that Navarrete knew the laundered funds were the proceeds of

cocaine sales or were intended to promote the distribution of cocaine. The district

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court therefore properly applied a six-level enhancement under U.S.S.G.

§ 2S1.1(b)(1).

      3. The record establishes that the district court considered all relevant

factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), including mitigating factors, see Carty, 520

F.3d at 992, and under plain error review, Navarrete cannot show that the district

court’s reliance on any extraneous information caused him significant prejudice,

see United States v. Warr, 530 F.3d 1152, 1162–63 (9th Cir. 2008). Navarrete’s

sentence was thus not procedurally or substantively unreasonable.

      AFFIRMED.

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