United States v. Quintero-Arias

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: April 25, 2025
• Docket: 24-4585
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 25 2025 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 24-4585 D.C. No. 3:22-cr-02359-RBM-1 Plaintiff - Appellee,

v. MEMORANDUM* OMAR ANTHONY QUINTERO-ARIAS,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Ruth Bermudez Montenegro, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted April 22, 2025**

Before: GRABER, H.A. THOMAS, and JOHNSTONE, Circuit Judges.

Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias appeals from the district court’s judgment

revoking supervised release and imposing a sentence of 24 months’ imprisonment

and three years’ supervised release. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291,

and we affirm.

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). Quintero-Arias first contends that the district court did not adequately

explain the sentence, including its reasons for rejecting his mitigating arguments.

We review for plain error, see United States v. Valencia-Barragan, 608 F.3d 1103,

1108 (9th Cir. 2010), and conclude there is none. The record as a whole reflects

that the district court considered Quintero-Arias’s mitigating arguments but

concluded an above-Guidelines custodial sentence was warranted given Quintero-

Arias’s immediate and serious violations following release from the court’s lenient

sentence on the underlying offense. See United States v. Carty, 520 F.3d 984, 992

(9th Cir. 2008) (en banc). The record further shows that the court imposed a new

supervised release term because it believed Quintero-Arias required further

supervision and would benefit from treatment. See 18 U.S.C. § 3583(a). Contrary

to Quintero-Arias’s argument, the court’s reasons reflect proper consideration of

Quintero-Arias’s breaches of the court’s trust. See United States v. Simtob, 485

F.3d 1058, 1063 (9th Cir. 2007).

Quintero-Arias also contends that the district court erred by imposing a

suspicionless search condition that extends to his electronic devices because it did

not establish a nexus between the condition and his conduct. We conclude the

district court did not abuse its discretion because the nexus is apparent from the

record. See United States v. Wolf Child, 699 F.3d 1082, 1089-90 (9th Cir. 2012)

(stating standard of review and explaining that the district court does not need to

2 24-4585 state its reasons for a supervised release condition where the reasoning is apparent

from the record). In light of Quintero-Arias’s conduct on supervised release, the

condition is reasonably related to the goals of deterrence, protection of the public,

and rehabilitation and involves no greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably

necessary. See 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d). To the extent Quintero-Arias challenges the

district court’s failure to make findings justifying the inclusion of electronic

devices in the condition, he did not raise this argument below and he has not

shown the court plainly erred. See United States v. Blinkinsop, 606 F.3d 1110,

1118-19 (9th Cir. 2010).

AFFIRMED.

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