United States of America v. Ernesto Figueroa Chavez

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent*
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision**
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
ERNESTO FIGUEROA CHAVEZ,
Defendant - Appellant.
No. 11-50367
D.C. No. 2:10-cr-01083-SVW
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted October 15, 2013**
Before: FISHER, GOULD, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
Ernesto Figueroa Chavez appeals from the district court’s judgment and
challenges his guilty-plea conviction and four-year sentence for conspiracy to
engage in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, in violation of 18
FILED
OCT 22 2013
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U .S. C OU R T OF APPE ALS

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U.S.C. §§ 371 and 3571(b)(3). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and
we affirm the conviction but vacate and remand for resentencing.
Figueroa Chavez contends that his plea was invalid because the district court
erred by allegedly failing to advise him of the full immigration consequences of his
plea, including a potential 20-year bar to reentry. This argument fails because the
district court has no obligation to make this advisement. See United States v.
Delgado-Ramos, 635 F.3d 1237, 1238, 1241 (9th Cir. 2011) (per curiam) (district
court does not have a duty “to inform a defendant of the immigration consequences
of his plea”). Contrary to Figueroa Chavez’s argument, nothing in Chaidez v.
United States, 133 S. Ct. 1103 (2013), undermines Delgado-Ramos.
Figueroa Chavez next contends that the district court committed procedural
error at sentencing when it failed to calculate the Guidelines range. We review for
plain error. See United States v. Waknine, 543 F.3d 546, 551 (9th Cir. 2008). The
district court’s failure to calculate the applicable Guidelines range constituted
“significant procedural error.” Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007).
Because the custodial sentence here was 21 months above the top of the advisory
Guidelines range calculated by the presentence report, we cannot conclude that the
court would have imposed the same sentence absent the error. Accordingly, we
vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing so that the district court’s analysis

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can proceed from “an initial determination of the correct Guidelines range.”
United States v. Munoz-Camarena, 631 F.3d 1028, 1031 (9th Cir. 2011) (per
curiam); see also United States v. Hammons, 558 F.3d 1100, 1105-06 (9th Cir.
2009) (district court’s failure to calculate the correct Guidelines range was plain
error).
In light of our decision, we do not reach Figueroa Chavez’s remaining
challenges to his sentence.
AFFIRMED in part; VACATED and REMANDED for resentencing.

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