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Case: 13-11106      Document: 00512738359         Page: 1    Date Filed: 08/19/2014

           IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
                                                                          United States Court of Appeals

                                    No. 13-11106
                                                                                   Fifth Circuit

                                                                                 FILED
                                  Summary Calendar                         August 19, 2014
                                                                            Lyle W. Cayce
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                                                        Clerk

                                                 Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

JUAN PEREZ TREJO, also known as Juan Gabriel Perez Trejo, also known as
Juan Gabriel Perez, also known as Juan Perez

                                                 Defendant-Appellant

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Northern District of Texas
                             USDC No. 3:13-CR-106-1

Before KING, JOLLY, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM: *
       Juan Perez Trejo was convicted of one charge of illegal reentry into the
United States and was sentenced to serve 77 months in prison. In this appeal,
he first contends that the district court erred by applying the 16-level crime of
violence adjustment provided by U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2 because the Texas burglary
statute under which his prior conviction arose is indivisible and thus not

       * 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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH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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amenable to the modified categorical analysis. This issue was recently decided
adversely to Perez Trejo and is thus unavailing. See United States v. Conde-
Castaneda, 753 F.3d 172, 176-78 (5th Cir. 2014).
      We reach a different result as to Perez Trejo’s second appellate claim,
that the district court reversibly erred by denying him the third point for
acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1. Sentences are reviewed
for reasonableness. Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007). This court
first examines whether the district court committed any procedural errors,
such as incorrectly calculating the advisory guidelines range. 552 U.S. at 51.
Next, we determine whether the sentence was substantively reasonable. 552
U.S. at 51.
      Amendment 775 to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, which
became effective November 1, 2013, provides that the Government should not
withhold the additional one-level reduction under § 3E1.1(b) based on interests
not identified in the guideline, such as whether the defendant agrees to waive
the right to appeal. U.S.S.G. Manual, Supp. to App. C, Amendment 775, at 43-
46 (2013). In United States v. Villegas Palacios, __ F.3d __, No. 13-40153, 2014
WL 2119096, at *1 (5th Cir. May 21, 2014), decided after the district court’s
decision in this case, we concluded that Amendment 775 abrogated United
States v. Newsom, 515 F.3d 374 (2008), on which the district court relied, to
the extent it would constrain us from applying Amendment 775 to a case on
direct appeal. 2014 WL 2119096, at *2 n.1.
      In light of the amendment to § 3E1.1, the holding in Villegas Palacios,
and the Government’s concession of error in the instant case, we conclude that
procedural error occurred when Perez Trejo was not given credit for the full
three-point reduction for acceptance of responsibility. See Villegas Palacios,
2014 WL 2119096 at *1. Additionally, a review of the record shows that the

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error is not harmless. See United States v. Delgado-Martinez, 564 F.3d 750,
752-53 (5th Cir. 2009); cf. United States v. Bonilla, 524 F.3d 647, 656 (5th Cir.
2008) (concluding that guidelines calculation error did not require reversal
when district court said, “‘I believe that I have calculated the guidelines
correctly, but even if I am wrong about the guidelines, this is the sentence that
I would impose in any event.’”).       Accordingly, Perez Trejo’s sentence is
VACATED, and this case is REMANDED to the district court for resentencing
consistent with this opinion.

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