United States v. Ronald Castanon

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: January 28, 2022
• Docket: 19-16224
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JAN 28 2022 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-16224

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. Nos. 1:17-cv-00252-DAD 1:96-cr-05272-DAD-1 v.

RONALD CASTANON, MEMORANDUM*

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Dale A. Drozd, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted January 19, 2022**

Before: SILVERMAN, CLIFTON, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.

Federal prisoner Ronald Castanon appeals from the district court’s order

denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate his sentence. We have jurisdiction

under 28 U.S.C § 2253. Reviewing de novo, see United States v. Reves, 774 F.3d

562, 564 (9th Cir. 2014), 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). Castanon contends that the district court erred by denying his § 2255 motion

as untimely. He asserts that his motion is timely because he filed it within one year

of the Supreme Court decision in Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015).

However, Castanon’s argument that Johnson applies to the mandatory career

offender Guideline under which he was sentenced is foreclosed. See United States

v. Blackstone, 903 F.3d 1020, 1028 (9th Cir. 2018) (“Johnson did not recognize a

new right applicable to the mandatory Sentencing Guidelines on collateral

review.”). Contrary to Castanon’s argument, our decision in Blackstone is not

“clearly irreconcilable” with United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019). See

Miller v. Gammie, 335 F.3d 889, 900 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc). Accordingly, the

district court properly concluded that § 2255(f)(3) does not apply and Castanon’s

motion is untimely. See 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1).

We treat Castanon’s additional arguments as a motion to expand the

certificate of appealability. So treated, the motion is denied. See 9th Cir. R. 22-

1(e); Hiivala v. Wood, 195 F.3d 1098, 1104-05 (9th Cir. 1999).

AFFIRMED.

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