United States v. Espinoza-Flores

ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

Robert E. Bacharach, Circuit Judge

This appeal is brought by Mr. Jose Daniel Espinoza-Flores, who was convicted of illegal reentry after conviction of an aggravated felony and sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment. Mr. Espinoza-Flores appeals, arguing that his sentence is substantively unreasonable. We disagree.

I. We apply the abuse-of-discretion standard.

We review the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Espinoza-Flores’s sentence under the abuse-of-discretion standard. United States v. Steele, 603 F.3d 803, 809 (10th Cir. 2010). “[A]s long as the balance struck by the…