United States v. Lagunas-Cavaller

[DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FILED ________________________ U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 10-11928 DEC 29, 2010 Non-Argument Calendar JOHN LEY CLERK ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 1:09-cr-00338-JEC-JFK-1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff-Appellee, versus JORGE LAGUNAS-CAVALLER, lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant-Appellant. ________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ________________________ (December 29, 2010) Before TJOFLAT, BLACK and CARNES, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Jorge Lagunas-Cavaller appeals his 60-month sentence, imposed following his guilty plea to illegally reentering the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. §§ 1326(a) and (b)(2). Lagunas-Cavaller asserts his sentence was substantively unreasonable, because it was unsupported by the § 3553(a) factors. He further argues a 60-month sentence would lead to unwarranted discrepancies between his sentence and those of similarly situated defendants. After review, we affirm Lagunas-Cavaller’s sentence.1 Lagunas-Cavaller’s 60-month sentence is substantively reasonable. The sentence was within the applicable guideline range and well below the statutory maximum for the offense. Moreover, the court gave due consideration to the § 3553(a) factors, and imposed a sentence that was sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with the purposes of sentencing. Lastly, Lagunas-Cavaller has failed to demonstrate that he was similarly situated to any defendant who had a similar record and was found guilty of similar conduct, but who received a shorter sentence. AFFIRMED. 1 We review a final sentence for reasonableness. United States v. Winingear, 422 F.3d 1241, 1244-45 (11th Cir. 2005). Reasonableness review is akin to the deferential abuse-of- discretion standard. Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 41 (2007). 2