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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Mario TORREZ-MARTINEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 92-50094.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 2, 1993.*
Decided May 11, 1993.
Before: D.W. NELSON, BRUNETTI, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.
MEMORANDUM**
Appellant Mario Torrez-Martinez ("Torrez") pleaded guilty to оne count of illegal transportation of aliens, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(B). The district court twice sentenced him, and twice the sentence was remanded. Torrez appeals from the district court's third sentence. We reverse and remand for rеsentencing.
* On March 19, 1988, Torrez was arrested, after a high-speed chase and a scuffle with law enforcement officеrs, for transporting 13 illegal aliens in the back of a 1973 Buick. We vacated his sentence based on our finding that the Sentencing Guidеlines were unconstitutional. Subsequently, the Supreme Court remanded for resentencing based on its holding in Mistretta v. United States,
On remаnd, the district court adopted the recommendations of the presentence report, which had found the base оffense level to be nine under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.1(a)(2) and recommended a downward adjustment to seven for acceptance of responsibility. Because Torrez's criminal history category was III, the resulting guideline range was four to ten months. However, the рrobation officer recommended an upward departure to 42 months because of Torrez's actions in engaging in a high-speed chase, abandoning the rolling car, and using false names and birth dates in past arrests. The district court sentenced Torrez to 42 months in custody and a three-year term of supervised release.
On appeal, we affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded in a memorandum disposition filed on August 22, 1991. We found, pursuant to United States v. Lira-Barraza,
On remand, the district court explained the extent of departure by analogizing Torrez's offense to operating a common carrier under the influence of alcohol or drugs, noting that such offense has a base offense level of thirteen in contrast to the base offense level of nine for § 2L1.1. It then added six offense levels under § 3C1.2 for reckless endangerment, concluding that three separate catеgories of persons were endangered: the aliens, the law enforcement officers, and the public. After subtracting twо levels for acceptance of responsibility, he arrived at the final adjusted offense level of 17. Combined with Torrеz's criminal history category of III, this resulted in a guideline range of 30 to 37 months. Concluding that it could not justify the original 42 month sentence, thе district judge sentenced Torrez to 37 months' incarceration plus three years' supervised release, and credited thе five-month difference between the original sentence (42 months) and the new sentence (37 months) towards the supervised relеase term. Torrez appeals this new sentence.
II
We first dispose of two preliminary matters. First, the fact that Torrez was deported in April 1991 after having served his sentence of 42 months does not moot this appeal because his term of suрervised release has not ended. United States v. Valdez-Gonzalez,
III
Torrez contends that the upward departure was invalid for two reasons. He argues first that "the district court mistakenly believed that the analogy to § 2D2.3 had been offered as a base offense level from which to depart upward," when in fact it had been offered "to capture the maximum departure." However, this contention is erroneous; Torrez himself suggested adding two offense levels for reckless endangerment after analogizing to the common carrier guideline base offense level. Any error in adding two offense levels for reckless endangermеnt was therefore invited and nonreviewable on appeal, unless reversal is necessary to "preserve the intеgrity of the judicial process or to prevent a miscarriage of justice." United States v. Schaff,
Second, Torrez arguеs that our decision in United States v. Hernandez-Rodriguez,
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Notes
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. Fed.R.App.P. 34(a); Ninth Circuit Rule 3(f)
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