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Date Created: 2023-02-27 16:00:45.051598+00
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Case: 22-50296     Document: 00516655627         Page: 1     Date Filed: 02/24/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
                                ____________                         United States Court of Appeals
                                                                              Fifth Circuit

                                  No. 22-50296
                                                                            FILED
                                                                     February 24, 2023
                                Summary Calendar
                                ____________                           Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                            Clerk
   United States of America,

                                                             Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                       versus

   Andrea Nicole Skaggs,

                                           Defendant—Appellant.
                  ______________________________

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Western District of Texas
                           USDC No. 7:16-CR-128-8
                  ______________________________

   Before Jones, Haynes, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Andrea Nicole Skaggs appeals the 8-month term of imprisonment
   imposed following the revocation of her supervised release. Skaggs asserts
   that her revocation sentence, which was within the range recommended by
   the policy statements of the Sentencing Guidelines, is substantively

          _____________________
          *
            Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 47.5, the court has determined that this
   opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited
   circumstances set forth in 5th Circuit Rule 47.5.4.
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                                    No. 22-50296

   unreasonable. Specifically, she argues that the district court erred in light of
   the president’s blanket pardon for marijuana possession offences.
          We review her sentence under the plainly unreasonable standard. See
   Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 762, 766-67 (2020); United
   States v. Warren, 720 F.3d 321, 326 (5th Cir. 2013); see also United States v.
   Cano, 981 F.3d 422, 427 (5th Cir. 2020). The record reflects that the district
   court’s explanation for the chosen revocation sentence was reasoned, fact-
   specific, and consistent with the statutory sentencing factors relevant to
   revocation sentences. See Warren, 720 F.3d at 332-33. The marijuana
   offense pardon is irrelevant because Skaggs has never been accused or
   convicted of possessing marijuana; she was originally convicted and
   sentenced for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine
   and then violated the terms of her supervised release by using marijuana. A
   district court can impose and enforce a condition of supervised release which
   prohibits a defendant from using any intoxicating substance whether legal or
   illegal. See United States v. Vigil, 989 F.3d 406, 411 (5th Cir. 2021). The
   district court did not abuse its discretion or impose a substantively
   unreasonable revocation sentence. See Warren, 720 F.3d at 332.
          The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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