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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        OCT 22 2020
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                       No.    19-30257

                Plaintiff-Appellee,             D.C. No. 3:15-cr-00227-SI-1

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
ANDRE EUGENE SHAW, AKA Joe
Stanis,

                Defendant-Appellant.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                            for the District of Oregon
                   Michael H. Simon, District Judge, Presiding

                          Submitted September 1, 2020**
                              Seattle, Washington

Before: McKEOWN and VANDYKE, Circuit Judges, and KENDALL, *** District
Judge.

      Andre Shaw appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to dismiss,

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      ***
            The Honorable Virginia M. Kendall, United States District Judge for
the Northern District of Illinois, sitting by designation.
revocation of his supervised release, and sentence of 14 months incarceration

followed by 22 months supervised release. The parties are familiar with the facts,

so we do not repeat them here. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and

we affirm.

      Shaw’s waiver of his right under Fed. R. Crim. P. 32.1(c) to a hearing with

the representation of counsel before a negative modification of his supervised

release must be knowing, intelligent, and voluntary. See United States v. Stocks,

104 F.3d 308, 312 (9th Cir. 1997).

      A waiver is knowing and intelligent if the defendant knows “both the nature

of the right being abandoned and the consequences of the decision to abandon it.”

Moran v. Burbine, 475 U.S. 412, 421 (1986). The district court’s determination

that Shaw’s waiver was knowing and intelligent was not clearly erroneous. See

United States v. Doe, 60 F.3d 544, 546 (9th Cir. 1995) (district court’s

determination that waiver was knowing and intelligent is reviewed for clear error).

The case manager explained that the waiver form was “part of the process to stay”

at the facility, and that if Shaw “had any questions he could talk to his attorney or

his probation officer.” The case manager also presented the form separately from

other forms. Shaw had already been presented with the Northwest Regional Re-

entry Center’s resident handbook, which explained the regulations that Shaw was

required to follow while at the center, and he had signed a document indicating that

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he knew he was responsible for reading and knowing the applicable regulations.

      Shaw also challenges the voluntariness of his waiver. A waiver is voluntary

if “it was the product of a free and deliberate choice rather than intimidation,

coercion, or deception.” Moran, 475 U.S. at 421. Under governing precedent,

being required to choose between remaining at the reentry center on modified

supervised release or exiting without an established place to reside put Shaw in a

difficult position but did not render his waiver involuntary. Shaw’s case manager

“made no threats [to Shaw] and he had no tools by which to compel [Shaw’s]

consent.” Stocks, 104 F.3d at 312. Shaw freely agreed to the modification. See id.

      AFFIRMED.

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