Court Opinion

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                            FILED
                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT                              JAN 24 2011

                                                                          MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                            U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                        No. 10-30147

              Plaintiff - Appellee,              D.C. No. 6:03-cr-00016-DWM-1

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM*
KATHERINE MARIE GABLE,

              Defendant - Appellant.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                           for the District of Montana
                   Donald W. Molloy, District Judge, Presiding

                           Submitted January 13, 2011**
                               Seattle, Washington

Before: GRABER and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and BREYER,*** District
Judge.

        *
             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 Charles R. Breyer, District Judge for the U.S. District
Court for Northern California, San Francisco, sitting by designation.
      Katherine Marie Gable appeals the district court’s revocation of her

supervised release and imposition of a fourteen-month sentence. Because the

parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history of this case, we do not

recount additional facts except as necessary to explain the decision. We affirm.

      Admission of hearsay evidence during the revocation hearing did not violate

Gable’s Fifth Amendment right to confrontation because the evidence was

sufficiently reliable. See United States v. Simmons, 812 F.2d 561, 564 (9th Cir.

1987); see also United States v. Comito, 177 F.3d 1166, 1170 (9th Cir. 1999).

Moreover, any error was harmless, because Gable challenges only evidence

relevant to the fifth supervised release violation, and the district court stated that it

would have revoked her release even if the fifth violation had not been considered.

      The district court did not err in concluding that Gable had committed a new

crime. A district court may revoke a term of supervised release if it “finds by a

preponderance of the evidence that the defendant violated a condition of

supervised release.” 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3). Here, there was sufficient evidence

to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that Gable had committed a new state-

law crime in violation of the terms of her supervised release.

      Nor did the district court improperly rely on punishment during sentencing.

Taken in context, the court’s reference to “punishment” properly concerned

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sanctions for Gable’s supervised release violations, not for the underlying state-law

crime. See United States v. Miqbel, 444 F.3d 1173, 1182 (9th Cir. 2006).

      Finally, Gable’s sentence was not substantively unreasonable considering

the totality of the circumstances, see United States v. Carty, 520 F.3d 984, 993 (9th

Cir. 2008) (en banc), because Gable’s supervised release had been revoked three

times and her new violations commenced almost immediately after her release

from prison.

      AFFIRMED.

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