No. 11-4968
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Richmond.
Henry E. Hudson, District
Judge. (3:11-cr-00132-HEH-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
May 4, 2012
PER CURIAM:
Isidro Zapata-Calzada pled guilty to illegal reentry
after removal following conviction for an aggravated felony, in
violation of 8 U.S.C. 1326(a), (b)(2) (2006).
the
district
court
initially
calculated
fifty-one
months,
imprisonment.
sentence
upward
Guidelines
range
and
On
is
departed
sentenced
appeal,
he
claims
of
him
and
that
Zapata-Calzadas
forty-one
to
argues
substantively
the
months
sixty-five
Zapata-Calzada
procedurally
Specifically,
from
At sentencing,
district
to
months
that
his
unreasonable.
court
imposed
an
We affirm.
As this court has explained, no matter what provides
the
basis
review[s]
United
for
the
resulting
States
deviation
v.
Evans,
from
the
Guidelines
sentence
only
for
526
155,
164
F.3d
range[,]
[it]
reasonableness.
(4th
Cir.
2008)
In
the
court
the
sentence
for
significant
procedural errors, and under the second, the court reviews the
468, 473 (4th Cir. 2007) (examining Gall, 552 U.S. at 50-51).
When
the
district
court
imposes
departure
or
acted
reasonably
both
with
respect
to
its
decision
to
from
the
sentencing
range.
United
States
v.
The
United
appeal,
courts
Zapata-Calzada
upward
departure
immediate
first
by
two
argues
that
criminal
the
history
return
to
the
United
States
after
deportation, which occurred following his release from a threeyear sentence imposed after his conviction for aggravated sexual
battery of a child less than thirteen years of age, was not
adequately
range.
reflected
in
the
initially
calculated
Guidelines
3553(a)
(2006)
factors
and
concluded,
in
Zapata-Calzadas
and
offense
conviction.
of
reflect
the
nature
It
and
circumstance
subsequently
determined
of
the
that
the
imprisonment.
We
hold
that
the
sentence
is
criminal
history
and
the
district
courts
reasoned
See Diosdado-Star,
also
unreasonable
as
argues
the
the
sentence
district
court
imposed
is
failed
to
the
defendants]
particular
situation.
United
States
v.
offense,
the
and
specifically
originally
rejected
calculated
Zapata-Calzadas
Guidelines
range
claim
provided
to
deter
Zapata-Calzada
and
others
from
illegally
purposes
of
18
U.S.C.
3553(a),
and
we
conclude
the
See Gall,
the
district
court
did
not
abuse
its
judgment
of
the
district
court.
5
We
dispense
with
oral