UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JOSE DE REFRUGIO PALOMAR MARTINEZ (2016)

Jose De Refrugio Palomar-Martinez appeals his sentence for illegally reentering the United States after deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. The district court sentenced him to 42 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Palomar-Martinez argues that the district court erred in applying the 12-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(1)(B) based solely on the presentence report (PSR), which characterized his prior Mississippi conviction of possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance as a “drug trafficking offense.” We review for plain error. United States v. Chavez-Hernandez, 671 F.3d 494, 497 (5th Cir. 2012).

Palomar-Martinez does not explain what conduct proscribed by the Mississippi controlled substances statute falls beyond the scope of the Guidelines' definition of “drug trafficking offense,” much less show that the district court committed clear or obvious error in treating the prior Mississippi offense as categorically supporting the enhancement. See Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 135 (2009); see also United States v. Scroggins, 599 F.3d 433, 446-47 (5th Cir. 2010) (holding that failure to brief an argument waives it). Also, Palomar-Martinez did not question, or attempt to rebut, the information in the PSR in the district court. See United States v. Ramirez, 367 F.3d 274, 277 (5th Cir. 2004). In any event, even if we accept for the sake of argument Palomar-Martinez's premise that the district court should have consulted the sort of documents approved in Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13 (2005), he cannot show plain error because the Government has supplemented the record on appeal with Shepard documents that confirm the PSR's description of the offense. See United States v. Garcia-Arellano, 522 F.3d 477, 480 (5th Cir. 2008), overruled on other grounds by United States v. Hinkle, 832 F.3d 569, 575 & n.27 (5th Cir. 2016).

AFFIRMED.

PER CURIAM:*