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Date Created: 2023-03-15 00:00:30.573567+00
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Case: 22-50603         Document: 00516676860             Page: 1      Date Filed: 03/14/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit
                                       No. 22-50603
                                     Summary Calendar                                 FILED
                                     ____________                                March 14, 2023
                                                                                 Lyle W. Cayce
   United States of America,                                                          Clerk

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                             versus

   Ever Garcia,

                                               Defendant—Appellant.
                      ______________________________

                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                           for the Western District of Texas
                               USDC No. 7:21-CR-146-6
                      ______________________________

   Before Stewart, Duncan, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Ever Garcia pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to
   distribute 50 grams of actual methamphetamine and possession of a firearm
   in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He appeals the term of supervised
   release imposed on the firearm conviction, arguing that the district court
   procedurally erred by failing to explain, under U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c), why it

         _____________________
          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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                                    No. 22-50603

   imposed supervised release considering that he is a deportable alien. We
   review his challenge for plain error because he did not object to any alleged
   error under § 5D1.1(c) at sentencing. See United States v. Dominguez-
   Alvarado, 695 F.3d 324, 327–28 (5th Cir. 2012).
          Garcia has not met his burden of showing that the alleged error
   affected his substantial rights. See Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 135
   (2009); United States v. Brown, 328 F.3d 787, 789 (5th Cir. 2003). The
   conspiracy conviction carried a statutory minimum five-year term of
   supervised release, and the district court imposed concurrent five-year terms
   of supervised release on both convictions. Assuming arguendo that the
   district court was required to articulate individualized reasons for imposing a
   term of supervision on the firearm conviction specifically and did not
   adequately do so, Garcia cannot show that his sentence would have been any
   lower had the court fulfilled its procedural obligations because the total
   five-year term of supervised release that he received in this case was the
   minimum required by statute. See United States v. Castillo-Rubio, 34 F.4th
   404, 411 (5th Cir. 2022); 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A).
                                                                   AFFIRMED.

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