United States v. Martinez Aviles
United States v. Martinez Aviles
Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
Michael Ivan Martinez Aviles appeals the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to being an illegal alien found in the United States following deportation and conviction.
Aviles contends that 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b), which increases the maximum sentence for illegal reentry based on facts that do not have to be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, is unconstitutional. This contention, as Aviles concedes and preserves in the event of a Supreme Court holding to the contrary, is foreclosed. See United States v. Weiland, 420 F.3d 1062, 1079 n. 16 (9th Cir. 2005) (noting that we continue to be bound by the Supreme Court’s holding in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998), that a district court may enhance a sentence on the basis of prior convictions, even if the fact of those convictions was not found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).
In accordance with United States v. Rivera-Sanchez, 222 F.3d 1057 (9th Cir. 2000),
AFFIRMED and REMANDED.
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