Opinion
No. 14-50021
03-06-2015
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. JOSE ESCOBAR-ESCOBAR, AKA Jesus Escobar-Escobar, AKA Jesus Escobar-Hernandez, Defendant - Appellant.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 3:13-cr-03794-LAB-1 MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Larry A. Burns, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted March 2, 2015 Pasadena California Before: PREGERSON, FERNANDEZ, and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges.
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).
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Jose Escobar-Escobar appeals the sentence imposed by the district court following a conviction for a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing.
In imposing a high-end sentence of 16 months, the district court stated that "as part of [his] thinking in this case," he considered the costs to the taxpayers in providing Escobar with legal representation, court process, and incarceration. A district court, however, may not consider cost as a sentencing factor. See United States v. Tapia-Romero, 523 F.3d 1125, 1127 (9th Cir. 2008) (stating that § 3553(a) "neither requires, nor allows, a court to consider the cost of imprisonment in determining the appropriate length of a defendant's term of imprisonment").
VACATED AND REMANDED.