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TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 13-1296
v.
(D. Colorado)
Defendant - Appellant.
After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined
unanimously that oral argument would not materially assist in the determination
of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). The case is
therefore ordered submitted without oral argument.
Defendant and appellant, German Antonio Ocampo-Gutierrez, appeals the
eighteen-month sentence imposed on him following his plea of guilty to escape
This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the
doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. The court
generally disfavors the citation of orders and judgments; nevertheless, an order
and judgment may be cited under the terms and conditions of 10th Cir. R. 32.1.
from a prison, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 751(a). Finding that the district court
did not err in imposing Mr. Ocampo-Gutierrezs sentence, we affirm.
Mr. Ocampo-Gutierrez was born in Colombia in 1955, and he entered the
United States illegally in 1976. He married an American citizen at some point,
and he avers he eventually legalized his status. Appellants Br. at 1. 1
As Mr. Ocampo-Gutierrez describes the matter in his brief, [i]n the mid1980s [he] made a mistake. Under pressure from a Colombian drug cartel, he
agreed to transport drugs across the border from Mexico into the United States.
He was intercepted at the border and subsequently convicted of a federal drug
crime. Id. at 2. Mr. Ocampo-Gutierrez was then sent to serve his fifteen-year
sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Florence, Colorado. Two months later,
Mr. Ocampo-Gutierrez wandered away from the camp. Id.
At some point, Mr. Ocampo-Gutierrez returned to Mexico, married and had
three children. 2 He worked as a carpenter. Mr. Ocampo-Gutierrez further averred
that [i]n approximately 2012, after being harassed by Los Zetas cartel members,
he sold his home in Monterrey, Mexico, and closed his construction business. He
and his family began living illegally in Texas, subsisting largely on the proceeds
from the sale of their home in Mexico. Id. at 3.
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The district court questioned defense counsel about whether the defense
request for a downward variant sentence would allow Mr. Ocampo-Gutierrez to
avoid any additional punishment for escape. See Tr. of Sentencing Hrg at 10, R.
Vol. 4 at 32.
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Stephen H. Anderson
Circuit Judge
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