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3-7-2007

USA v. Santos
Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential

Docket No. 06-1296




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                        UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                             FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT


                                       No. 06-1296


                            UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                                             v.

                              JULIO ALBERTO SANTOS,
                                               Appellant


                     On Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
                     D.C. Criminal Nos. 04-cr-0286 and 04-cr-0418
                           (Honorable Mary A. McLaughlin)


                   Submitted Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a)
                                   March 2, 2007
        Before: SCIRICA, Chief Judge, McKEE and NOONAN*, Circuit Judges.

                                  (Filed: March 7, 2007)


                               OPINION OF THE COURT


NOONAN, Circuit Judge.

       Julio Santos (“Santos”) pled guilty both to re-entry after deportation, in violation

of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (a), (b)(2), and escape, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 751. Santos now


   *
    The Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Judicial
Circuit, sitting by designation.
appeals, arguing that his sentence imposes an “unwarranted” sentence disparity in

violation of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6), because an offender in a fast-track immigration

district would have received a lesser sentence for the re-entry offense. We have

jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) and affirm.

       We have recently considered and rejected the fast-track disparity argument.

United States v. Vargas, 2007 WL 518630 (3d Cir. 2007). “Because ... the disparity

between sentences in fast-track and non-fast-track districts is authorized by Congress

and, hence, warranted,” id. at *2, “a district court’s refusal to adjust a sentence to

compensate for the absence of a fast-track program does not make a sentence

unreasonable.” Id. at *3.

       AFFIRMED.




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