U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2003

United States v. Garcia-Rodriquez

United States v. Garcia-Rodriquez
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided December 15, 2003
83 F. App'x 227

United States v. Garcia-Rodriquez

Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM **

Armando Garcia-Rodriguez appeals the judgment of conviction and sentence fol*228lowing his guilty plea to one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. He concedes that Ninth Circuit precedent forecloses his argument that imposition of a sentence longer than 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a)’s two-year statutory maximum based on a prior conviction neither alleged in the indictment nor admitted during the plea canvass violates due process under Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). United States v. Arellano-Rivera, 244 F.3d 1119, 1127 (9th Cir. 2001), cert. denied, 535 U.S. 976, 122 S.Ct. 1450, 152 L.Ed.2d 392 (2002); United States v. Pacheco-Zepeda, 234 F.3d 411, 414-15 (9th Cir. 2000), cert. denied, 532 U.S. 966, 121 S.Ct. 1503, 149 L.Ed.2d 388 (2001).

Gareia-Rodriguez states that he presents the issue merely to preserve it should ensuing Supreme Court precedent alter the legal landscape. The judgment is therefore

AFFIRMED.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the *228courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

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