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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dottie NIXON, a/k/a Dorothy Nixon, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 01-4662.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
    Submitted April 22, 2002.
    Decided May 23, 2002.
    Randolph M. Lee, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellant. Gretchen C.F. Shappert, Office of the United States Attorney, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee.
    Before WILKINS, LUTTIG, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.
    Affirmed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
   OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Dottie Nixon appeals her sentence, imposed pursuant to a guilty plea, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine base within 100Ó feet of a school, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, 860 (1994). Finding no error, we affirm Nixon’s sentence.

Nixon contends her 360-month sentence is invalid under Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). Because Nixon’s sentence is not above the forty year statutory maximum of § 860, we find Apprendi is not implicated. See United States v. Dinnall, 269 F.3d 418 (4th Cir.2001); United States v. Promise, 255 F.3d 150 (4th Cir.2001) (en banc), petition for cert. filed, (U.S. Sept. 20, 2001) (No. 01-6398).

Nixon also contends the district court erred in calculating her sentencing guidelines range. We find no error in the district court’s determination of Nixon’s sentencing guidelines range. We therefore affirm Nixon’s sentence.

We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED.