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Summary: Case: 12-10982 Document: 00512419156 Page: 1 Date Filed: 10/25/2013 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED October 25, 2013 No. 12-10982 Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce Clerk UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee v. ADAM JOSHUA CORTEZ, Defendant-Appellant Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas USDC No. 3:11-CR-280-1 Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and SOUTHWICK, Circuit J
Summary: Case: 12-10982 Document: 00512419156 Page: 1 Date Filed: 10/25/2013 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED October 25, 2013 No. 12-10982 Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce Clerk UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee v. ADAM JOSHUA CORTEZ, Defendant-Appellant Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas USDC No. 3:11-CR-280-1 Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Ju..
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Case: 12-10982 Document: 00512419156 Page: 1 Date Filed: 10/25/2013
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
FILED
October 25, 2013
No. 12-10982
Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce
Clerk
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee
v.
ADAM JOSHUA CORTEZ,
Defendant-Appellant
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Texas
USDC No. 3:11-CR-280-1
Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
A jury convicted Adam Joshua Cortez of attempting to entice a minor, via
the internet and a cellular telephone, to engage in illegal sexual activity and
with committing that offense while a registered sex offender. The district court
sentenced him to a total term of 360 months of imprisonment, to be followed by
a lifetime term of supervised released. Cortez now appeals.
Cortez did not object to the special conditions of his release in the district
court. Accordingly, we will review Cortez’s challenges to the conditions for plain
*
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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.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.
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error only. See United States v. Ellis,
720 F.3d 220, 225 (5th Cir. 2013), petition
for cert. filed (Aug 16, 2013) (No. 13-5918).
On appeal, Cortez argues that the district court erred by imposing
excessively onerous special conditions of supervised release in his case. He
contends that the conditions individually and cumulatively are a greater
deprivation of liberty than necessary under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d)(2). Cortez
specifically challenges the conditions (1) restricting his use of computers and the
internet, (2) banning him from contact with persons under the age of 18, (3)
banning him from places where children may frequently congregate, (4)
conditionally restricting him from dating or befriending anyone with children
under the age of 18 who live at home, (5) banning him from possessing sexually
oriented or sexually stimulating materials of adults, (6) banning him from
patronizing any place where sexually oriented or sexually stimulating materials
are available, and (7) requiring him to participate in treatment programs that
may include psycho-physiological testing and prescribed medications.
Cortez’s challenge to the special condition requiring to participate in
treatment programs is not ripe for appeal. See
Ellis, 720 F.3d at 227. The
remaining conditions imposed in Cortez’s case are similar to those this court
upheld in Ellis. See
id. at 225-27. Cortez has offered no convincing argument
to distinguish the conditions imposed in his case from those this court found to
be appropriate in Ellis. Given Cortez’s solicitation offense, and the pornography
found on his computer, the district court did not err, much less commit plain
error, in imposing those conditions. See Puckett v. United States,
556 U.S. 129,
135 (2009).
AFFIRMED.
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