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Summary: NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEB 10 2020 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-10140 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:12-cr-01385-SRB-1 v. KIM MARIE DE LA ROSA, MEMORANDUM* Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-10141 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:12-cr-01946-SRB-1 v. KIM MARIE DE LA ROSA, Defendant-Appellant. Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Susan R. Bo
Summary: NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEB 10 2020 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-10140 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:12-cr-01385-SRB-1 v. KIM MARIE DE LA ROSA, MEMORANDUM* Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-10141 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:12-cr-01946-SRB-1 v. KIM MARIE DE LA ROSA, Defendant-Appellant. Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Susan R. Bol..
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEB 10 2020
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-10140
Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No.
2:12-cr-01385-SRB-1
v.
KIM MARIE DE LA ROSA, MEMORANDUM*
Defendant-Appellant.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-10141
Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No.
2:12-cr-01946-SRB-1
v.
KIM MARIE DE LA ROSA,
Defendant-Appellant.
Appeals from the United States District Court
for the District of Arizona
Susan R. Bolton, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted February 6, 2020**
Phoenix, Arizona
*
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).
Before: O'SCANNLAIN, GRABER, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
Kim Marie De La Rosa appeals the district court’s revocation of her term of
supervised release and her 24-month custodial sentence. As the facts are known to
the parties, we repeat them only as necessary to explain our decision.
I
The district court did not abuse its discretion in determining, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that De La Rosa violated the condition of her
supervised release requiring that she “reside and participate in Beautiful
Beginnings, a residential care program providing mental health and substance
abuse treatment or a similar program approved by your probation officer for 180
days unless discharged earlier by your probation officer.” See United States v.
Lomayaoma,
86 F.3d 142, 146 (9th Cir. 1996) (quoting 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3)). It
is undisputed that De La Rosa was unsuccessfully discharged from Beautiful
Beginnings less than two weeks after her arrival. The record reveals that De La
Rosa was discharged for ongoing noncompliance issues. It is also undisputed that
De La Rosa failed to reside at an alternative treatment facility approved by her
probation officer for the remainder of the required 180 days, thus violating a term
of her supervised release. The district court did not abuse its discretion in so
finding.
Nor did the district court plainly err in determining that revoking De La
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Rosa’s term of supervised release did not violate her right to due process. De La
Rosa argues for the first time on appeal that requiring her, rather than her probation
officer, to find an alternative treatment facility violated her right to due process and
that she was not on notice that if she failed to find a suitable replacement facility
her supervised release would be revoked. But nothing in the plain language of the
condition requires the probation officer affirmatively to find another facility, only
to approve one if the occasion arises. Furthermore, De La Rosa was orally advised
of this condition by the district court, and she acknowledged her understanding of
it with her initials and signature. The district court did not plainly err in
determining De La Rosa violated this condition.
II
The district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing the maximum
statutory sentence of 24 months. United States v. Musa,
220 F.3d 1096, 1101 (9th
Cir. 2000). Though De La Rosa argues the court did not provide any justification
for its upward variance, the record is to the contrary. Specifically, the court noted
that the Guidelines range does not take into account that this was De La Rosa’s
second violation of a condition of her supervised release. Moreover, the court
explained that, in the past, De La Rosa had received lenient sentences, but she
continued to violate the court’s trust by breaching the court-imposed conditions. In
light of this history, it was reasonable for the district court to impose an above-
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Guidelines sentence. See Gall v. United States,
552 U.S. 38, 51 (2007).
AFFIRMED.
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