Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2013-08-20 00:00:37.268766+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION

                      UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       FILED
                              FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT                         AUG 19 2013

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                         U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                         No. 12-10451

                Plaintiff - Appellee,             D.C. No. 4:09-cr-02684-DCB

  v.
                                                  MEMORANDUM *
RUBEN ANTHONY GOMEZ,

                Defendant - Appellant.

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                              for the District of Arizona
                    Timothy M. Burgess, District Judge, Presiding **

                             Submitted August 14, 2013 ***

Before:         SCHROEDER, GRABER, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

       Ruben Anthony Gomez appeals from the district court’s judgment and

challenges the 18-month sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release.

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

          **
              The Honorable Timothy M. Burgess, United States District Judge for
the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.
          ***
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

      Gomez contends that the district court procedurally erred by failing to

consider all of the 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) sentencing factors and by failing to explain

adequately the reasons for imposing an 18-month sentence. We review for plain

error, see United States v. Miqbel, 444 F.3d 1173, 1176 (9th Cir. 2006), and find

none. The record reflects that the district court considered the section 3583(e)

sentencing factors, and adequately explained why an above-Guidelines sentence

was warranted.

      Gomez also contends that the victim who addressed the court at the

disposition hearing was only a “secondary victim” of Gomez’s underlying offense

because he suffered no financial loss, that he should not have been permitted to

address the court, and that the government should have disclosed that he suffered

no financial loss. These contentions are unavailing. See 18 U.S.C. § 3771(a)(4)

and (e) (any person directly and proximately harmed by the commission of a

federal crime is a crime victim who may address the district court in a supervised

release proceeding). Furthermore, the record reflects that the district court was

aware that the testifying victim suffered no financial loss.

      AFFIRMED.

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