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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nikita Wadale HARPER, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 06-11028.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    March 12, 2007.
    Dennis C. O’Brien, Nemarietta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.
    William Gavin Traynor, Amy Levin Weil, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern Dist. of Ga., Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Before DUBINA and COX, Circuit Judges, and SCHLESINGER, District Judge.
    
      
       Honorable Harvey E. Schlesinger, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, sitting by designation.
    
   PER CURIAM:

A Federal Grand Jury in the Northern District of Georgia charged the Appellant, Nikita Wadale Harper (“Harper”), in a federal indictment of robbing two South-Trust Banks twice, with using a firearm to commit robbery, with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and with using a firearm to rob the SouthTrust Banks. The first trial resulted in a mistrial because of a hung jury. After the second jury trial, Harper was found guilty of robbing the Conyers SouthTrust Bank in July 2004 and March 2003, robbing the Perimeter SouthTrust Bank in April 2003, using firearms to commit the three robberies, and being a felon in possession of the pistol recovered from the March 2004 robbery in Conyers (Counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7). The jury acquitted Harper of robbing the Perimeter SouthTrust Bank in September 2000. Harper was sentenced to 1,044 months in prison.

Harper presents the following issues for appellate review:

1. Whether the district court abused its discretion in not conducting an eviden-tiary hearing on Harper’s second supplemental motion to suppress.
2. Whether the district court abused its discretion in permitting Agent Fonseca and Lt. Dunn to testify about their interview of Mrs. Harper.
3. Whether the district court committed plain error in permitting Agent Fonse-ca and Lt. Dunn to testify about their interview of Mrs. Harper in violation of the Confrontation Clause.
4. Whether the district court, after considering the factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), imposed an unreasonable sentence.
5. Whether Almendarez-Torres, 523 U.S. 224, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998), is viable post Booker.

After reviewing the record, reading the parties’ briefs, and having the benefit of oral argument, we conclude that there is no merit to any of the arguments Harper makes in this appeal. Accordingly, we affirm his convictions and sentences.

AFFIRMED.