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Case: 23-40455         Document: 00516991631             Page: 1      Date Filed: 12/06/2023

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

                                             FILED
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                                                                                December 6, 2023
                                       No. 23-40455                               Lyle W. Cayce
                                     Summary Calendar                                  Clerk
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   United States of America,

                                                                       Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                             versus

   Alejandro Jesus Quintero-Reyes,

                                               Defendant—Appellant.
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                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Southern District of Texas
                               USDC No. 2:19-CR-1613-7
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   Before Willett, Duncan, and Douglas, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Alejandro Jesus Quintero-Reyes, federal prisoner # 99374-479,
   appeals the denial of his motion for a sentence reduction, filed pursuant to 18
   U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), based upon Amendment 782 to the Sentencing
   Guidelines, and also appeals his postjudgment motion for reconsideration.
   Quintero-Reyes contends that the district court abused its discretion in

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          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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   denying his motions because he is eligible for a reduction pursuant to the
   amendment and the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors.
          The record reflects that Quintero-Reyes was sentenced after
   Amendment 782’s effective date and that he received the benefit of this
   amendment in the calculation of the applicable guidelines range. Thus, he
   was not “sentenced to a term of imprisonment based on a sentencing range
   that has subsequently been lowered by the Sentencing Commission,”
   § 3582(c)(2), and he was thus ineligible for the claimed sentence reduction,
   Dillon v. United States, 560 U.S. 817, 825-26 (2010). Accordingly, the district
   court did not abuse its discretion in denying Quintero-Reyes’s motions
   seeking a reduction and reconsideration. See United States v. Henderson, 636
   F.3d 713, 717 (5th Cir. 2011).
          AFFIRMED.

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