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Date Created: 2017-10-10 20:00:56.190712+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                         FILED
                      UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                     OCT 10 2017
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                       No.    16-10178

                  Plaintiff-Appellee,           D.C. No.
                                                4:15-cr-50231-RM-LAB-1
    v.

CESAREO GOMEZ-PEREZ,                            MEMORANDUM*

                  Defendant-Appellant.

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                              for the District of Arizona
                     Rosemary Marquez, District Judge, Presiding

                      Argued and Submitted September 15, 2017
                              San Francisco, California

Before: SCHROEDER and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges, and WHALEY,**
District Judge.

         Cesareo Gomez-Perez appeals the district court’s judgment revoking his

supervised release and the sentence imposed upon revocation.1

         *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
         **
             The Honorable Robert H. Whaley, United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Washington, sitting by designation.
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 Appellant’s motion to take judicial notice (Dkt. No. 46) is DENIED. Appellee’s
motion to take judicial notice (Dkt. No. 29) is GRANTED.
      1.     A district court retains jurisdiction to revoke supervised release even

after a term of supervised release has expired if (1) a valid warrant or summons

was issued within the supervision period and (2) the delay between the end of the

term of supervised release and the district court’s revocation order is reasonably

necessary for the adjudication of matters arising before the term’s expiration. 18

U.S.C. § 3583(i).

      In the case at hand, the warrant application, which set forth the facts

surrounding Defendant’s violations and was signed under the penalty of perjury,

was not legally defective. United States v. Bueno-Vargas, 383 F.3d 1104, 1111

(9th Cir. 2004) (“signing a statement under penalty of perjury satisfies the standard

for an oath or affirmation” required by the Fourth Amendment). Accordingly, a

valid arrest warrant was issued prior to the end of Defendant’s term of supervised

release. 18 U.S.C. § 3583(i).

      Furthermore, the delay between expiration and revocation was reasonably

necessary under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(i) to adjudicate Defendant’s underlying drug

charges. See United States v. Morales-Isabarras, 745 F.3d 398, 402–03 (9th Cir.

2014) (“[W]hen the outcome of an ongoing criminal proceeding is directly related

to the issue of whether the defendant violated a condition of supervised release, it

is ‘reasonably necessary’ to delay proceedings on the supervised release violation

pending resolution of the underlying criminal charge.”).

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      Thus, the district court retained jurisdiction to revoke Defendant’s

supervised release under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(i).

      2.     Defendant argues that the district court committed procedural error by

failing to explain the sentence imposed for the supervised release violations

sufficiently to permit meaningful appellate review, and by considering an

impermissible sentencing factor.

      No objection to the sentence was made at sentencing, thus the decision is

reviewed for plain error. United States v. Miqbel, 444 F.3d 1173, 1176 (9th Cir.

2006). Given the straightforward arguments before the district judge, the law does

not require her to write more extensively. See Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338,

356–59 (2007); United States v. Carter, 560 F.3d 1107, 1117–18 (9th Cir. 2009);

United States v. Carty, 520 F.3d 984, 992–96 (9th Cir. 2008) (en banc).

      Furthermore, the record is clear that Defendant received a sentence for his

supervised release violations that is separate and distinct from the sentenced

imposed for the new charges and the record does not demonstrate that improper

considerations were taken into account when imposing the supervised release

violation sentence. See 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e).

      The district court did not commit procedural error when it sentenced

Defendant for his supervised release violations.

      AFFIRMED.

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