Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-04-04 00:00:26.639644+00
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Case: 22-10444         Document: 00516698874             Page: 1      Date Filed: 04/03/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit
                                       No. 22-10444
                                     Summary Calendar                                 FILED
                                     ____________                                  April 3, 2023
                                                                                 Lyle W. Cayce
   United States of America,                                                          Clerk

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                             versus

   Howard Leon Combs,

                                               Defendant—Appellant.
                      ______________________________

                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Northern District of Texas
                                USDC No. 4:16-CR-54-1
                      ______________________________

   Before Wiener, Elrod, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Defendant-Appellant Howard Leon Combs appeals the sentence
   imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for possessing a firearm as a
   felon. He insists that the district court erred by applying a four-level
   enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) for possessing the firearm in
   connection with his felony theft of a motor vehicle.

          _____________________
          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-10444     Document: 00516698874           Page: 2   Date Filed: 04/03/2023

                                    No. 22-10444

          Even if we assume that the district court procedurally erred in
   applying this enhancement, the government has met its burden of showing
   that any error was harmless. See United States v. Guzman-Rendon, 864 F.3d
   409, 411 (5th Cir. 2017). The government convincingly demonstrated that
   the district court would have imposed the same sentence absent the alleged
   error for the same reasons that it provided at resentencing. See United States
   v. Redmond, 965 F.3d 416, 420 (5th Cir. 2020). The judgment of the district
   court is AFFIRMED.

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