UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.	No. 04-4133
ANTHONY LEO MONTES,

Defendant-Appellant.

(D.C. No. 2:03-CR-610)

(D.Utah)

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before BRISCOE, LUCERO, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Defendant Anthony Leo Montes appeals his sentence in light of the United States Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Booker, 125 S.Ct. 738 (2005). Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a),

we affirm Mr. Montes's sentence.**

Pursuant to a plea agreement with the government, Mr. Montes pled guilty to one count of theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(u), and to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). After Mr. Montes stipulated to the facts underlying the calculation of his sentence, the district court sentenced Mr. Montes to 162 months. This sentence fell at the high end of Mr. Montes's guideline range of 130-162 months.

The district court sentenced Mr. Montes prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Booker, which rendered the Sentencing Guidelines advisory, rather than mandatory. 125 S.Ct. at 756-57. Relying on Booker, Mr. Montes raises one issue on appeal: whether the district court's treatment of the Sentencing Guidelines as mandatory constitutes structural error. Mr. Montes acknowledges that this argument is foreclosed by this court's en banc decision in United States v. Gonzalez-Huerta, 403 F.3d 727 (10th Cir. 2005). Mr. Montes, however, states that he raises the issue solely to preserve it for possible Supreme Court review.

As Mr. Montes correctly points out, we held in Gonzalez-Huerta that non-
constitutional error occurs when the district court treats the Guidelines as mandatory, and that "non-constitutional Booker error is not structural error." 403 F.3d at 731-32, 734. Accordingly, we AFFIRM Mr. Montes's sentence.

Entered for the Court

Mary Beck Briscoe

Circuit Judge