Opinion
No. 08-50473.
Submitted September 14, 2009.
Filed October 13, 2009.
Michael Lewis Merrinian, Assistant U.S., Office of the U.S. Attorney, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Doug Keller, Federal Public Defender, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Janis L. Sammartino, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. 3:08-cr-01177-JLS-1.
Before: SILVERMAN, RAWLINSON, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Isaul Rodriguez-Banuelos appeals from the 70-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for illegal reentry after deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm, but remand to correct the judgment.
Rodriguez-Banuelos contends that his sentence is unreasonable because its is based upon dated criminal conduct that should not have been scored for purposes of his criminal history. He also contends that the district court failed to properly apply the § 3553(a) sentencing factors. We conclude that the sentence imposed is substantively reasonable and procedurally sound. See Gall v. United States., 552 U.S. 38, 128 S.Ct. 586, 596-97, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (200); United States v. Amezcua-Vdsquez, 567 F.3d 1050, 1054-1058 (9th Cir. 2009). Rodriguez-Banuelos' contention that using the same prior conviction for the sentencing enhancement and for calculating his criminal history score constitutes impermissible double counting is foreclosed. See United States v. Garcia-Cardenas, 555 F.3d 1049, 1050 (9th Cir. 2009) (per curiam).
We remand the case to the district court with instructions that it delete from the judgment the incorrect reference to 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b). See United States v. Rivera-Sanchez, 222 F.3d 1057, 1062 (9th Cir. 2000); see also United States v. Herrera-Blanco, 232 F.3d 715, 719 (9th Cir. 2000) (remanding sua sponte to delete the reference to § 1326(b)(2)).