Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-18 22:00:41.832001+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       OCT 18 2023
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                       No. 23-50009

                Plaintiff-Appellee,             D.C. No. 3:05-cr-00199-BEN-5

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM *
MARCOS DELAROSA RAMIREZ, AKA
Joker,

                Defendant-Appellant.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Southern District of California
                    Roger T. Benitez, District Judge, Presiding

                           Submitted October 10, 2023**

Before:      S.R. THOMAS, McKEOWN, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.

      Marcos Delarosa Ramirez appeals from the district court’s judgment

revoking supervised release and challenges the three-year term of supervision

imposed to follow his 60-day term of imprisonment. We have jurisdiction under

28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

      *
             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).
      Ramirez first contends that his supervised release term should be stricken

because the district court failed to orally impose it. See United States v. Munoz-

Dela Rosa, 495 F.2d 253, 256 (9th Cir. 1974) (“The only sentence that is legally

cognizable is the actual oral pronouncement in the presence of the defendant.”).

The record belies this claim. After hearing the parties’ sentencing arguments and

Ramirez’s allocution, the court determined that it would impose a sentence of 60

days, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Though it did not repeat

the term of supervised release when it referred again to the imprisonment term later

in the sentencing hearing, it discussed at length Ramirez’s obligations for his new

supervised release term. On this record, we find no ambiguity in the oral

pronouncement of sentence.

      Ramirez next contends that the district court failed to consider the 18 U.S.C.

§ 3583(e) factors or offer an adequate explanation for the supervised release term.

We review for plain error, see United States v. Valencia-Barragan, 608 F.3d 1103,

1108 (9th Cir. 2010), and conclude there is none. The record demonstrates that the

court heard and considered Ramirez’s arguments. Moreover, its explanation for

the sentence reflects its consideration of the relevant § 3583(e) factors and permits

meaningful appellate review. See United States v. Perez-Perez, 512 F.3d 514, 516-

17 (9th Cir. 2008).

      Finally, Ramirez argues that the three-year term of supervision is

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substantively unreasonable in light of his lengthy period of compliance prior to the

instant revocation and his mitigating circumstances. The district court did not

abuse its discretion. See Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007). Given

Ramirez’s criminal history and more recent violation conduct, the three-year term

of supervised release is substantively reasonable. See United States v. Hurt, 345

F.3d 1033, 1036 (9th Cir. 2003).

      AFFIRMED.

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