United States v. Jennifer Vanmeter

689 F. App'x 809

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Decided: May 24, 2017
• Docket: 16-11184 Summary Calendar
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

PER CURIAM: *

Jennifer Vanmeter was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and appeals her within-guidelines sentence of 46 months of imprisonment and two years of supervised release. She contends that the court erred by calculating her sentence under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(a)(4)(A) and designating her Texas conviction of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as a qualifying crime of violence (“COV”) as defined by U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (2015). We review de novo whether the district court properly characterized a conviction as a COV. United States v. Guillen-Alvarez, 489 F.3d 197, 198 (6th Cir. 2007).

Although Vanmeter contends that her Texas conviction does not constitute generic aggravated assault, she concedes correctly that her challenge in that regard is foreclosed by Guillen-Alvarez, id. at 200-01. See also United States v. Villasenor-Ortiz, No. 16-10366, 675 Fed.Appx. 424, 425-28, 2017 WL 113917, *2-3 (5th Cir. Jan. 11, 2017) (per curiam) (reaffirming the continued validity of Guillen-Alvarez in the wake of Mathis v. United States, — U.S. -, 136 S.Ct. 2243, 195 L.Ed.2d 604 (2016)). Vanmeter also avers that aggravated assault is no longer an enumerated offense under § 4B1.2 because Johnson v. United States, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), also invalidated § 4B1.2(a)(2)’s residual clause. In Bedeles v. United States, — U.S. -, 137 S.Ct. 886, 892, 197 L.Ed.2d 145 (2017), the Court held that Johnson's holding was not applicable to the definition of a COV in § 4B1.2(a)(2) because the guidelines are not subject to a vagueness challenge under the Due Process Clause. Bedeles therefore effectively forecloses Vanmeter’s theory based on Johnson.

Accordingly, the judgment is AFFIRMED.

* Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47,5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.