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Date Created: 2023-01-25 18:00:55.827171+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        JAN 25 2023
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                       Nos. 21-10258
                                                     21-10259
                Plaintiff-Appellee,
                                                D.C. Nos. 1:03-cr-00111-JAO-1
 v.                                                       1:19-cr-00092-JAO-1

MARIO GARIBALDI-LOPEZ, AKA Mario
Garibaldi, AKA Pancho, AKA Alberto              MEMORANDUM*
Torres Alvarado,

                Defendant-Appellant.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                             for the District of Hawaii
                     Jill A. Otake, District Judge, Presiding

                           Submitted January 18, 2023**

Before:      GRABER, PAEZ, and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges.

      In these consolidated appeals, Mario Garibaldi-Lopez appeals the district

court’s revocation of supervised release, as well as the imposition of two special

conditions of supervised release following his conviction for several new criminal

      *
             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).
offenses. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C § 1291. We affirm in Appeal No.

21-10258, and we vacate the challenged conditions and remand in Appeal No. 21-

10259.

      In Appeal No. 21-10258, Garibaldi-Lopez does not make any arguments

concerning the district court’s decision to revoke supervised release or the sentence

imposed upon revocation. Accordingly, any challenge to the revocation judgment

is waived, see United States v. Kama, 394 F.3d 1236, 1238 (9th Cir. 2005), and we

affirm that judgment.

      In Appeal No. 21-10259, Garibaldi-Lopez challenges two supervised release

conditions, arguing that they impermissibly delegate judicial functions to the

probation officer. After the district court entered judgment, we struck down the

precise conditions challenged by Garibaldi-Lopez, holding that the defendant’s

challenge to those conditions was not barred by the appeal waiver and that the

conditions impermissibly delegated to the probation officer the authority to

determine the nature and extent of the defendant’s punishment. See United States

v. Nishida, 53 F.4th 1144, 1149, 1151-55 (9th Cir. 2022). Accordingly, we vacate

special conditions one and four and remand for the district court to clarify the

scope of authority delegated to the probation officer consistent with Nishida.

      Appeal No. 21-10258: AFFIRMED.

      Appeal No. 21-10259: VACATED in part and REMANDED.

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