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United States v. Manuel Buenfil-Catalan
684 F. App'x 370
| 5th Cir. | 2017
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*1 Before JONES, WIENER, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM: [*]

Defendant-Appellant Manuel Jesus Buenfil-Catalan pleaded guilty to illegal reentry and was sentenced to 48 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. He contends that the district court plainly erred in applying the crime-of-violence enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) (2015) based on his prior Tennessee conviction for aggravated assault. We have held that Tennessee aggravated assault under subsection (a) of the statute is categorically a crime of violence. United States v. Mungia- Portillo , 484 F.3d 813, 815-17 (5th Cir. 2007) (examining T ENN C ODE A NN . § 39-13-102(a) (1991)). We have also held that the Tennessee aggravated assault statute is “identical in all material respects” to the Texas aggravated assault statute. United States v. Guillen-Alvarez , 489 F.3d 197, 200 (5th Cir. 2007) (examining T EX P ENAL ODE A NN . §§ 22.01, 22.02 (2000)). We recently reaffirmed our holding that Texas aggravated assault is categorically a crime United States v. Villasenor-Ortiz , No. 16-10366, 2017 WL 113917, at *3 & n.9 (5th Cir. Jan. 11, 2017) (unpublished) (examining T EX . P ENAL ODE A NN . § 22.02(a) (2003));

Buenfil-Catalan nonetheless insists that the Tennessee aggravated assault statute is indivisible in its entirety and that an aggravated assault under subsection (b) is not generic aggravated assault. Whether Tennessee treats an aggravated assault under subsection (b) as an offense with different elements than an aggravated assault under subsection (a) is subject to reasonable dispute. See, e.g. , State v. Roberson , 988 S.W.2d 690, 696 (Tenn. Crim. App. 1998). Buenfil-Catalan therefore fails to show that subsection (b) is clearly or obviously not divisible from subsection (a). See Puckett v. United States , 556 U.S. 129, 135 (2009). The district court did not plainly err in treating the Tennessee aggravated assault statute as divisible and examining the state court documents to determine which subsection Buenfil-Catalan was convicted of violating. See Shepard v. United States , 544 U.S. 13, 16 (2005).

These documents reflect that Buenfil-Catalan was convicted of violating subsection (a), namely, § 39-13-102(a)(1). The district court did not plainly err in determining that his Tennessee conviction for aggravated assault is a crime See Villasenor-Ortiz , 2017 WL 113917, at *3; , 489 F.3d at 200-01; Mungia-Portillo

The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

[*] Pursuant to 5 TH IR R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5 TH IR R. 47.5.4.

Case Details

Case Name: United States v. Manuel Buenfil-Catalan
Court Name: Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Date Published: Apr 3, 2017
Citation: 684 F. App'x 370
Docket Number: 16-40799 Summary Calendar
Court Abbreviation: 5th Cir.
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