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Date Created: 2023-06-09 00:00:45.16804+00
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Case: 22-11119        Document: 00516779722             Page: 1      Date Filed: 06/08/2023

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

                                      No. 22-11119
                                                                                       FILED
                                                                                     June 8, 2023
                                    Summary Calendar
                                    ____________                                     Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                          Clerk
   United States of America,

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Aurelio Azua-Moctezuma,

                                              Defendant—Appellant.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                         for the Northern District of Texas
                              USDC No. 3:22-CR-168-1
                     ______________________________

   Before Wiener, Elrod, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Aurelio Azua-Moctezuma appeals the 24-month, above-guidelines
   prison sentence imposed following his guilty plea conviction for illegally
   reentering the United States. Azua-Moctezuma argues that his sentence is
   substantively unreasonable. Our review is for abuse of discretion. See

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-11119      Document: 00516779722          Page: 2   Date Filed: 06/08/2023

                                    No. 22-11119

   Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 762, 766 (2020); Gall v. United
   States, 552 U.S. 38, 46-47, 49-51 (2007).
          Azua-Moctezuma has not shown that the district court did not
   account for a factor that should have received significant weight, gave
   significant weight to an improper factor, or made a clear error in balancing
   the sentencing factors. See United States v. Warren, 720 F.3d 321, 332 (5th
   Cir. 2013). The district court reviewed and adopted the presentence report,
   considered Azua-Moctezuma’s mitigating arguments, and determined that
   an above guidelines range sentence was appropriate because of his serious
   criminal history and the need for deterrence. His protestations to the
   contrary notwithstanding, the district court clearly based the upward
   variance on Azua-Moctezuma’s prior conviction for the sexual assault of a
   child. Despite his attempt to argue otherwise, Azua-Moctezuma ultimately
   argues that the district court should have weighed the sentencing factors
   differently, which “is not a sufficient ground for reversal.” United States v.
   Malone, 828 F.3d 331, 342 (5th Cir. 2016); see United States v. Hernandez, 876
   F.3d 161, 167 (5th Cir. 2017).
          AFFIRMED.

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