                                                                           FILED
                             NOT FOR PUBLICATION                            DEC 14 2009

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                      UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                     U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS




                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT



 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                       No. 08-50440

               Plaintiff - Appellee,             D.C. No. 2:88-cr-00668-MLR

   v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM *
 LAMON LEE CHRISTENSEN,

               Defendant - Appellant.



                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Central District of California
                      Manuel L. Real, District Judge, Presiding

                           Submitted November 17, 2009 **

Before:        ALARCÓN, TROTT, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

        Lamon Lee Christensen appeals from the eight-month sentence imposed

following revocation of the supervised release term he was serving following a

jury-trial conviction for armed bank robbery and use of a firearm during and in

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
            The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without
oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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relation to a crime of violence. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291,

and we affirm.

       Christensen contends that the district court erred by imposing consecutive

three-year and two-year terms of supervised release as part of the sentence on the

underlying conviction. As a result, he argues that the district court lacked

jurisdiction to revoke his supervised release because his supervision expired upon

completion of the initial three-year term, which occurred prior to the conduct

resulting in the revocation of supervised release. We decline to reach the merits of

this argument because an appeal challenging a revocation proceeding is not the

proper avenue through which to attack the validity of the original sentence. See

United States v. Gerace, 997 F.2d 1293, 1295 (9th Cir. 1993).

       AFFIRMED.




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