Opinion
No. 15-10382
06-20-2016
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LUIS FERNANDO CASACA, Defendant-Appellant.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 1:09-cr-00209-SOM MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
Susan Oki Mollway, District Judge, Presiding Before: BEA, WATFORD, and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Luis Fernando Casaca appeals pro se from the district court's order denying his motion for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo whether a district court has authority to modify a sentence under section 3582(c)(2), see United States v. Leniear, 574 F.3d 668, 672 (9th Cir. 2009), and we affirm.
Casaca contends that he is entitled to a sentence reduction under Amendment 782 to the Sentencing Guidelines. The district court properly concluded that Casaca is ineligible for a sentence reduction because Amendment 782 did not lower his applicable sentencing range. See 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2); Leniear, 574 F.3d at 673-74. To the extent that Casaca seeks to challenge the sentencing court's original calculation of his Guidelines range or to otherwise have his sentence reduced in light of mitigating factors, these claims are not cognizable in a section 3582(c)(2) proceeding. See Dillon v. United States, 560 U.S. 817, 826, 831 (2010) (alleged errors committed at the original sentencing hearing cannot be corrected under section 3582(c)(2), which does not permit a plenary resentencing proceeding).
AFFIRMED.