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Summary: IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 01-21191 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus EDDY FERNANDO SANDOVAL-HIDALGO, Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court For the Southern District of Texas November 14, 2002 Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DUHÉ, and DEMOSS, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:* Appellant Eddy Fernando Sandoval-Hidalgo brings two points of error on appeal. He first complains that the district court erroneously enhanced his sentence
Summary: IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 01-21191 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus EDDY FERNANDO SANDOVAL-HIDALGO, Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court For the Southern District of Texas November 14, 2002 Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DUHÉ, and DEMOSS, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:* Appellant Eddy Fernando Sandoval-Hidalgo brings two points of error on appeal. He first complains that the district court erroneously enhanced his sentence ..
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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 01-21191
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
versus
EDDY FERNANDO SANDOVAL-HIDALGO,
Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court
For the Southern District of Texas
November 14, 2002
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DUHÉ, and DEMOSS, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Appellant Eddy Fernando Sandoval-Hidalgo brings two points of
error on appeal. He first complains that the district court
erroneously enhanced his sentence for illegal reentry into the
United States1 by eight levels after concluding that his prior
felony conviction for simple possession of drugs constituted an
aggravated felony under the 2001 version of Sentencing Guideline §
*
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this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except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.
1
See 8 U.S.C. § 1326.
2L1.2(b)(1)(B). Based on the analysis we applied in United States
v. Caicedo-Cuero,2 in which we found that state felony drug
possession convictions still constitute drug trafficking crimes for
purposes of § 2L1.2(b)(1)(B)’s aggravated felony enhancement under
the 2001 version of the guideline, the district court did not err
in applying the eight-level enhancement to appellant.3
Sandoval asserts, as an additional point of error, that the
district court, which required the defendant to submit to drug
screening as a condition of supervised release, impermissibly
delegated to the Probation Office the authority to set the amount
and timing of payments toward the costs of court-ordered drug abuse
detection efforts. As he concedes in his reply brief, however,
this issue is foreclosed by United States v. Warden,4 in which we
held that a district court could delegate to the Probation Office
the responsibility of determining a defendant’s ability to pay for
court-ordered drug screening.5
2
No. 02-20751 (5th Cir. Nov. 14, 2002). This opinion is
attached.
3
In Caicedo-Cuero, the appellant protested both that his
prior conviction for simple possession was not a felony for
purposes of the aggravated felony enhancement and that it was not
a drug trafficking crime for purposes of the enhancement.
Id.
Here, Sandoval concedes that his prior crime is a felony, and
asserts only that his prior felony conviction is not a drug
trafficking crime for purposes of the aggravated felony enhancement
under the 2001 version of § 2L1.2.
4
291 F.3d 363, 366 (5th Cir. 2002).
5
Id.
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AFFIRMED.
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