Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2011-04-19 22:33:03+00
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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                                 APR 19 2011

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

                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                        No. 09-50231

               Plaintiff - Appellee,             D.C. No. 5:08-cr-00098-VAP-1

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM*
RYAN MARSHAL CLARKE,

               Defendant - Appellant.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Central District of California
                    Virginia A. Phillips, District Judge, Presiding

                             Submitted April 15, 2011**
                                Pasadena, California

Before:        KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, D.W. NELSON and BYBEE, Circuit
               Judges.

       The district court expressly determined that “[t]he defendant’s criminal

history places him in criminal history category 5.” In doing so, the court

necessarily rejected Clarke’s requests for downward departures and therefore

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
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complied with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32. See United States v.

Rogers, 119 F.3d 1377, 1384–85 (9th Cir. 1997) (finding that a district court

complied with Rule 32 by implicitly resolving an objection to the PSR).

      Clarke’s challenges to two conditions of supervised release similarly fail.

First, the condition requiring Clarke to “notify the probation officer within 72

hours of being arrested or questioned by a law enforcement officer” is not

unconstitutionally vague because “men of common intelligence” needn’t “guess at

its meaning and differ as to its application.” United States v. Hugs, 384 F.3d 762,

768 (9th Cir. 2004). Second, the condition requiring Clarke to “permit a probation

officer to visit him . . . at any time at home or elsewhere” is not unreasonable under

the Fourth Amendment, see Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843, 857 (2006), nor is

it constitutionally overbroad or vague, or statutorily a “greater deprivation of

liberty than is reasonably necessary,” see United States v. Soltero, 510 F.3d 858,

865–67 (9th Cir. 2007).

      In his plea agreement, Clarke waived his “right to appeal any sentence

imposed by the Court, and the manner in which the sentence is determined” so

long as he received a within or below Guidelines sentence. Because Clarke’s 96-

month sentence falls within the relevant Guidelines range, we don’t consider his
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remaining arguments. See United States v. Jeronimo, 398 F.3d 1149, 1154 (9th

Cir. 2005).

      AFFIRMED.