United States v. Genaro Gasca

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MAR 21 2016 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 15-10273 Plaintiff - Appellee, D.C. No. 3:12-cr-00213-RS v. MEMORANDUM* GENARO GASCA, a.k.a. David Garcia, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Richard Seeborg, District Judge, Presiding Submitted March 15, 2016** Before: GOODWIN, LEAVY, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges. Genaro Gasca appeals pro se from the district court’s order denying his motion for a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo whether a district court has authority to modify a sentence under section 3582(c)(2), see United States v. * 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). Leniear, 574 F.3d 668, 672 (9th Cir. 2009), and we affirm. Gasca contends that he is entitled to a sentence reduction under Amendment 782 to the Sentencing Guidelines. The district court properly concluded that Gasca is ineligible for a sentence reduction because his sentence is already at the minimum of the amended Guidelines range. See U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10(b)(2)(A) (“[T]he court shall not reduce the defendant’s term of imprisonment . . . to a term that is less than the minimum of the amended guideline range.”); United States v. Davis, 739 F.3d 1222, 1224 (9th Cir. 2014). We reject Gasca’s argument that section 1B1.10(b), as revised by the Sentencing Commission in 2011, violates his right to due process. See Dillon v. United States, 560 U.S. 817, 828 (2010) (“[T]he sentence-modification proceedings authorized by § 3582(c)(2) are not constitutionally compelled.”); United States v. Tercero, 734 F.3d 979, 983-84 (9th Cir. 2013) (“[T]he [2011] revisions to § 1B1.10 fall squarely within the scope of Congress’s articulated role for the Commission.”). AFFIRMED. 2 15-10273