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Case: 16-41620      Document: 00514002362         Page: 1    Date Filed: 05/22/2017

           IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
                                                                            United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                     Fifth Circuit
                                    No. 16-41620                                   FILED
                                  Summary Calendar                             May 22, 2017
                                                                              Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                   Clerk
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                 Plaintiff–Appellee,

v.

BENITO GOMEZ-JIMENEZ,

                                                 Defendant–Appellant.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Southern District of Texas
                             USDC No. 1:16-CR-256-1

Before REAVLEY, OWEN, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM: *
       Benito Gomez-Jimenez appeals the 60-month sentence imposed
following his guilty plea and conviction for being found in the United States
without permission, following removal. He contends that the district court
erred by enhancing his sentence under United States Sentencing Guideline §
L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) (2015) based on a determination that his conviction for
burglary of a habitation under Texas Penal Code § 30.02 was equivalent to

       * Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH
CIR. R. 47.5.4.
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                                No. 16-41620

a conviction for the generic offense of “burglary of a dwelling,” which was
enumerated in the application notes accompanying § 2L1.2 as a “crime of
violence.” Gomez-Jimenez argues that, in light of Mathis v. United States,
136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), § 30.02 defines a single indivisible offense too broad
to meet the generic definition of burglary of a dwelling, and that the district
court erred when it narrowed his offense of conviction using the modified
categorical approach.
      In United States v. Conde-Castaneda, 753 F.3d 172, 175-76 (5th Cir.
2014), this court held that § 30.02 is a divisible statute and that courts may
apply the modified categorical approach to determine which of the three
subsections in § 30.02(a) formed the basis of a defendant’s conviction. This
court reaffirmed that decision in United States v. Uribe, 838 F.3d 667, 669-71
(5th Cir. 2016), cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 1359 (2017), specifically determining
that Mathis did not alter its prior holding. Although Gomez-Jimenez contends
that Uribe was wrongly decided, he concedes that his argument is foreclosed
by that decision.
      Accordingly, Gomez-Jimenez’s motion for summary disposition is
GRANTED and the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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