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No. 14-4784
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore.
J. Frederick Motz, Senior District
Judge. (1:13-cr-00696-JFM-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Jose
Adolfo
Benitez
Alvarado
pleaded
guilty
to
illegal
term
explanation.
of
supervised
release
without
proper
2002,
Alvarado
following
was
ordered
subsequently deported.
second time, in 2011.
2001
conviction
removed
from
for
the
robbery,
United
Benitez
States
and
The 2002
release,
but
it
did
reference
U.S.
Sentencing
Under
USSG
5D1.1(c),
if
supervised
release
is
not
required by statute and the defendant is an alien facing postincarceration removal, a sentencing court ordinarily should not
impose
term
Guidelines
of
Manual
supervised
release.
5D1.1(c).
If
the
U.S.
alien
Sentencing
were
to
return
court
should,
however,
consider
imposing
term
of
sentencing,
52
the
months
Government
imprisonment
requested
and
years
Id.
Guidelines
sentence
of
supervised
release.
an
additional
incentive
not
to
come
It seems to me
back.
J.A.
44.1
Nevertheless,
district
court
partially
credited
Benitez
Alvarados
Alvarado
supervised
to
41
release.
months
Benitez
Alvarado
did
not
and
object
years
to
the
Alvarado
asserting
that
reasonableness
review
In
and
sentence.
faced
At
deportation
sentencing,
he
upon
knew
the
that
completion
the
PSR
of
his
included
while
Defendant
release.
he
did
argued
not
for
object
below-Guidelines
to
the
imposition
sentence,
of
the
supervised
On appeal,
both
procedurally
and
substantively
4
unreasonable.
We
concluded
that
the
Defendant
did
not
properly
preserve
this
satisfy
plain
error
review,
Benitez
Alvarado
must
See
If this
not
fairness,
do
so
unless
integrity
proceedings.
or
the
error
public
seriously
reputation
if
it
of
the
judicial
affects
is
consideration.
clear
United
or
obvious
States
v.
at
the
time
An error is
of
Ramirez-Castillo,
appellate
748
F.3d
205, 215 (4th Cir. 2014) (citation and internal quotation marks
omitted).
In Aplicano-Oyuela, we held that our review for procedural
reasonableness of the imposition of supervised release in an
illegal reentry case should include consideration of whether the
sentencing court (1) is aware of Guidelines section 5D1.1(c);
(2)
considers
defendants
specific
circumstances
and
the
is needed.
Government
the
first
mentioned
supervised
release,
J.A. 44.
district
term
Sentencing
of
supervised
Guidelines
Manual
release
5D1.1
would
cmt.
provide.
n.5.
U.S.
Rather,
in
J.A. 54.
U.S.
Sentencing
Guidelines
Manual
5D1.1
cmt.
n.5.
F.3d 700, 712 (4th Cir. 2015) (holding Guidelines error affected
defendants
substantial
rights
because
he
was
sentenced
to
overwhelmingly
support
the
finding
that,
had
the
court
255 F.3d 150, 161-64 (4th Cir. 2001) (en banc) (declining to
notice plain error at sentencing because evidence overwhelmingly
supported drug quantity).
See Price,
with
contentions
are
oral
argument
adequately
because
presented
in
the
the
facts
We
and
legal
materials
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.