United States v. Ezequiel Solis-Flores

FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION JUN 24 2014 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 13-10356 Plaintiff - Appellee, D.C. No. 4:12-cr-00736-RCC-JR-1 v. MEMORANDUM* EZEQUIEL BENJAMIN SOLIS- FLORES, AKA Benjamin F. Solis, AKA Benjamin Solis-Flores, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Raner C. Collins, Chief District Judge, Presiding Submitted June 12, 2014** San Francisco, California Before: SCHROEDER, GRABER, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges. * 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). Ezequiel Benjamin Solis-Flores appeals the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to illegal reentry after deportation in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. We have jurisdiction to review under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm. Solis-Flores argues that he was entitled to an additional one-point reduction under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1(b) for acceptance of responsibility, even though he did not waive his appellate rights. The district court, however, already awarded the additional one-point reduction. Solis-Flores also contends that the district court erred in applying a 16-level enhancement for a prior conviction of a felony crime of violence under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii). Although Solis-Flores conceded that the underlying conviction was a felony on its face, he now asserts that the facts supporting the conviction do not satisfy the requirements for the felony portion of the state statute. Wash. Rev. Code § 9A.46.020(2)(b). This amounts to a collateral attack on his prior conviction that may not be maintained at sentencing. United States v. Burrows, 36 F.3d 875, 884–85 (9th Cir. 1994). The district court did not err in imposing the 16-level enhancement. AFFIRMED. 2