Case ID: f-appx_559/html/0701-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mario CASTILLO, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 13-3293.
    United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
    March 27, 2014.
    James A. Brown, Office of the United States Attorney, Topeka, KS, Colin D. Wood, Office of the United States Attorney, Wichita, KS, David Paxton Zabel, Office of the United States Attorney, Kansas City, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Mario Castillo, Yazoo City, MS, pro se.
    Before HARTZ, McKAY, and MATHESON, Circuit Judges.
   ORDER DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY

SCOTT M. MATHESON, JR., Circuit Judge.

Mario Castillo seeks a Certificate of Ap-pealability (“COA”) for review of the federal district court’s denial of his motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. We deny COA because no reasonable jurist could disagree with the district court’s ruling. See Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484, 120 S.Ct. 1595, 146 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000); 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B).

Mr. Castillo pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana and 5 kilograms or more of cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 and 846. His plea agreement called for a sentence of 210 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release. The district court accepted his plea agreement under Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(c)(1)(C).

Mr. Castillo did not file a direct appeal. His § 2255 motion alleged three claims for relief. He raises two of those issues here.

First, Mr. Castillo claims his Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated. In the district court, he alleged his attorney failed to object to the base offense level in his presentence report (“PSR”). As the district court explained, the plea agreement disavowed any reliance on the Sentencing Guidelines, and the PSR was prepared after the court accepted his plea and plea agreement solely for the benefit of the Bureau of Prisons. In his request for COA, Mr. Castillo does not pursue this argument. Instead, he claims his counsel disregarded his instructions to file a timely notice of appeal. Because he did not make this argument in district court, we do not consider it here. United States v. Renteria, 720 F.3d 1245, 1252 (10th Cir.2013); United States v. Windrix, 405 F.3d 1146, 1156 (10th Cir.2005).

Second, Mr. Castillo claims violation of his Sixth Amendment right to have a jury rather than the court determine drug amounts attributable to him. Again, as the district court explained, it did not find facts concerning drug quantities attributable to him, and his case law authority, Alleyne v. United States, — U.S. -, 133 S.Ct. 2151, 186 L.Ed.2d 314 (2013), does not apply retroactively to cases on collateral review. In re Payne, 733 F.3d 1027, 1029 (10th Cir.2013). Mr. Castillo repeats his Alleyne argument in his request for COA. We agree with the district court that In re Payne precludes this argument.

For the foregoing reasons, we deny Mr. Castillo’s request for COA and dismiss this matter. 
      
       This order is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its persuasive value consistent with Fed. R.App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1.