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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jose Ernesto NORIEGA-ZAMORA, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 02-50475.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Dec. 8, 2003.
    
    Decided Dec. 15, 2003.
    Jason A. Forge, Esq., USSD-Office of the U.S. Attorney, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Benjamin P. Lechman, Esq., San Diego, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before GOODWIN, WALLACE and MCKEOWN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
      This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Jose Ernesto Noriega-Zamora appeals his conditional guilty plea conviction for being a deported alien found in the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

Noriega-Zamora contends that the district court erred by denying his motion to dismiss the indictment based on the government’s oral modification of the elements presented to the grand jury. We review de novo the denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment. United States v. Haynes, 216 F.3d 789, 796 (9th Cir.2000). Because the date of deportation is not an element of the charged offense, and the additional evidence relied upon by the government did not support a crime other than that charged in the indictment, there was no constructive amendment of the indictment. See United States v. Alvarez, 972 F.2d 1000, 1003-04 (9th Cir.1992) (per curiam). Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s denial of Noriega-Zamora’s motion to dismiss the indictment.

AFFIRMED. 
      
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