Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2010-08-03 00:05:11+00
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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                             AUG 02 2010

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                        No. 08-50315

               Plaintiff - Appellee,             D.C. No. 2:08-cr-00445-PSG

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM *
LEOPOLDO GONZALEZ
MONDRAGON,

               Defendant - Appellant.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Central District of California
                    Philip S. Gutierrez, District Judge, Presiding

                              Submitted July 19, 2010 **

Before:        B. FLETCHER, REINHARDT, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

       Leopoldo Gonzalez-Mondragon appeals from the 37-month sentence

imposed following his guilty-plea conviction to being a deported alien found in the

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). We have jurisdiction under 28

U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm, but remand to correct the judgment.

      Gonzalez-Mondragon contends that his criminal history was miscalculated

because the district court counted the sentence for offenses committed after he

illegally reentered, but before he was “found” by the immigration authorities, as

criminal history under U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2 rather than relevant conduct under

U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3. This contention is foreclosed by United States v. Cruz-

Gramajo, 570 F.3d 1162, 1164 (9th Cir. 2009) (affirming the inclusion of

Defendants’ intervening state law crimes in criminal history calculation); see also

United States v. Marler, 527 F.3d 874, 877-881 (9th Cir. 2008).

      We need not decide whether Gonzalez-Mongradon’s possession of false

documents offense constitutes relevant conduct because he failed to show that he

would not have received a criminal history point for his state drug conviction. See

Cruz-Gramajo, 570 F.3d at 1174.

      In accordance with United States v. Rivera-Sanchez, 222 F.3d 1057, 1062

(9th Cir. 2000), we remand with instructions that the district court delete from the

judgment the incorrect reference to 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b). See United States v.

Herrera-Blanco, 232 F.3d 715, 719 (9th Cir. 2000) (remanding to delete the

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reference to § 1326(b) because it is a sentence enhancement and not a separate

punishable offense).

      AFFIRMED; REMANDED to correct the judgment.

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