(Slip Opinion)            Cite as: 564 U. S. ____ (2011)                              1

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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                                     No. 09–5801
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   RUBEN FLORES-VILLAR, PETITIONER v. UNITED 

                   STATES 

 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF

            APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

                                   [June 13, 2011] 


   PER CURIAM. 


   The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court. 


  JUSTICE KAGAN took no part in the consideration or 

decision of this case.
