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Case: 23-60077         Document: 00516821578             Page: 1      Date Filed: 07/14/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                                United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                         Fifth Circuit
                                       No. 23-60077
                                     Summary Calendar                                   FILED
                                     ____________                                     July 14, 2023
                                                                                  Lyle W. Cayce
   United States of America,                                                           Clerk

                                                                       Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                             versus

   Corey Joseph Lafleur,

                                               Defendant—Appellant.
                      ______________________________

                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Southern District of Mississippi
                                USDC No. 1:19-CR-35-1
                      ______________________________

   Before Higginbotham, Stewart, and Southwick, Circuit
   Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Corey Joseph Lafleur appeals his sentence, which is within the policy
   guidelines range, imposed following the revocation of his supervised release.
   Lafleur argues that the nature and circumstances of his violations did not
   support his seven-month sentence, that the district court failed to give
   adequate weight to his employment history or consider that he only was
          _____________________
          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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                                     No. 23-60077

   required to be at Dismas Charities until he obtained a suitable place to live,
   and that his sentence is greater than necessary to achieve the relevant
   sentencing goals.
          We review a preserved challenge to a revocation sentence under the
   “plainly unreasonable” standard. United States v. Miller, 634 F.3d 841, 843
   (5th Cir. 2011). We first consider whether the sentence was substantively
   unreasonable, reviewing for an abuse of discretion. United States v. Warren,
   720 F.3d 321, 332 (5th Cir. 2013). A revocation sentence within the policy
   guidelines range is presumptively reasonable. See United States v. Badgett,
   957 F.3d 536, 541 (5th Cir. 2020). The sentence will be vacated “only if the
   identified error is obvious under existing law.” United States v. Sanchez, 900
   F.3d 678, 682 (5th Cir. 2018) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
          The record shows that, in making its sentencing decision, the district
   court properly made “an individualized assessment based on the facts
   presented.” Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 50 (2007). Despite Lafleur’s
   arguments to the contrary, the record shows that the district court listened
   to and considered the nature and circumstances of his violations as well as his
   personal characteristics. Lafleur has not demonstrated any clear error of
   judgment in the district court’s balancing of the relevant sentencing factors.
   See Warren, 720 F.3d at 332; see also United States v. Hernandez, 876 F.3d 161,
   167 (5th Cir. 2017). Accordingly, Lafleur has failed to rebut the presumption
   of reasonableness of his seven-month revocation sentence. Miller, 634 F.3d
   at 843; see also Badgett, 957 F.3d at 541.
          AFFIRMED.

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