Opinion
No. 11-35876 D.C. No. 1:11-cv-70007-AA D.C. No. 1:05-cr-30062-AA
2013-10-03
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. JESUS PACHECO LOZANO, Defendant - Appellant.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
MEMORANDUM
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the District of Oregon
Ann L. Aiken, Chief Judge, Presiding
Before: RAWLINSON, N.R. SMITH, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
Federal prisoner Jesus Pacheco Lozano appeals from the district court's order denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate, set aside or correct his sentence. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We review a district court's denial of a section 2255 motion de novo, United States v. Manzo, 675 F.3d 1204, 1209 (9th Cir. 2012), and we affirm.
Lozano challenges his 2008 guilty-plea conviction of possession with intent to distribute 50 or more grams of actual methamphetamine on the ground that his counsel was ineffective by failing to inform him of the possible immigration consequences of his plea, as required under Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010). The district court properly denied Lozano's motion because he cannot demonstrate prejudice. Lozano was informed of the possible immigration consequences by the plea agreement and at the plea colloquy, and he has not shown that "a decision to reject the plea bargain would have been rational under the circumstances." See Padilla, 559 U.S. at 372.
AFFIRMED.