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Case: 23-20366         Document: 00517037233             Page: 1      Date Filed: 01/18/2024

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit                                        United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                         Fifth Circuit

                                      ____________                                     FILED
                                                                                January 18, 2024
                                       No. 23-20366                               Lyle W. Cayce
                                     Summary Calendar                                  Clerk
                                     ____________

   United States of America,

                                                                       Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                             versus

   Jaime Jesus Vasquez,

                                               Defendant—Appellant.
                      ______________________________

                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Southern District of Texas
                               USDC No. 4:19-CR-815-2
                      ______________________________

   Before Willett, Duncan, and Ramirez, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Jaime Jesus Vazquez has appealed his guilty plea conviction of
   conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of a
   mixture or substance containing cocaine. He complains that the written
   judgment includes conditions of supervised release that were not orally
   pronounced at sentencing. See United States v. Diggles, 957 F.3d 551, 556-57

          _____________________
          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-20366     Document: 00517037233           Page: 2   Date Filed: 01/18/2024

                                    No. 23-20366

   (5th Cir. 2020) (en banc). At issue here are 15 standard conditions of
   supervised release that were imposed in the written judgment but were not
   pronounced, nor were they orally adopted by reference to a standing order or
   other document. See id. at 556-59, 560-61. Because the court did not
   pronounce standard conditions 1 through 9 and 11 through 15, the district
   court abused its discretion in imposing them. See id. Standard condition 10
   is partially consistent with the statutorily-mandated condition that the
   defendant not commit another federal, state, or local offense; it bars Vasquez
   from owning, possessing, or having access to firearms, ammunition, or
   destructive devices, which would violate federal law following a felony
   conviction. However, it broadens that restriction by extending it to other
   dangerous weapons and must be stricken in part.
          Accordingly, standard conditions 1 through 9 and 11 through 15 should
   be excised from the written judgment, and standard condition 10 should be
   excised in part from the written judgment.           Vazquez’s sentence is
   VACATED IN PART and the case is REMANDED for the district court
   to amend its written judgment in accordance with the foregoing.

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