United States v. Regalado

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: February 29, 2024
• Docket: 23-1304
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEB 29 2024 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 23-1304 D.C. No. 5:17-cr-00120-AB-2 Plaintiff - Appellee,

v. MEMORANDUM*

JESSE REGALADO, AKA Chewy,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California André Birotte Jr., District Judge, Presiding

Submitted February 21, 2024**

Before: FERNANDEZ, NGUYEN, and OWENS, Circuit Judges.

Jesse Regalado appeals from the district court’s judgment and challenges the

20-month sentence imposed upon the revocation of his supervised release. We

have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

Regalado claims that the district court procedurally erred by basing the

* 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). sentence on future, anticipated supervised release violations. We review for plain

error, see United States v. Valencia-Barragan, 608 F.3d 1103, 1108 (9th Cir.

2010), and conclude that there is none. The record demonstrates that the district

court properly based the sentence on Regalado’s personal characteristics, breach of

the court’s trust, and criminal history. See 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e); United States v.

Carty, 520 F.3d 984, 992 (9th Cir. 2008) (en banc) (reasons for the sentence may

be inferred from the record as a whole); United States v. Simtob, 485 F.3d 1058,

1062 (9th Cir. 2007) (primary purpose of revocation sentence is to sanction the

defendant’s breach of the court’s trust). The court’s comments about how

Regalado might perform should he remain on supervised release were made in

response to Regalado’s sentencing arguments and his request that the district court

terminate supervision.

Regalado also contends that the above-Guidelines sentence is substantively

unreasonable. In light of the § 3583(e) sentencing factors and the totality of the

circumstances, however, the district court did not abuse its discretion. See Gall v.

United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007).

AFFIRMED.

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