United States v. Carvajal

MEMORANDUM **

Jorge Carvajal appeals from the district court’s judgment and challenges the 27-month sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for being a deported alien found in the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

Carvajal contends that his sentence is substantively unreasonable because the prior conviction triggering an eight-level Guidelines enhancement was stale. He relies on United States v. Amezcua-Vasquez, 567 F.3d 1050 (9th Cir.2009), which held a 16-level enhancement unreasonable because it took no…