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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David WATKINS also known as David Michael Watkins, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 05-11050
    Summary Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Nov. 15, 2006.
    Nancy E. Larson, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Bret E. Helmer, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Michael P. Heiskell, Johnson, Vaughn & Heiskell, Fort Worth, TX, for Defendant Appellant.
    Before DeMOSS, STEWART and PRADO, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

David Watkins pleaded guilty pursuant to a written plea agreement to managing or controlling a drug-involved premises in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 856 and was sentenced to a 135-month term of imprisonment. Watkins argues that 1) the district court erred in determining the quantity of drugs attributable to him for sentencing purposes, 2) his sentence is unreasonable, and 3) decisions of this court following United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), have rendered the Sentencing Guidelines “constructively mandatory.”

We review Watkins’s challenge to the drug quantity attributable to him for sentencing purposes for plain error. See United States v. Alvarado-Santilano, 434 F.3d 794, 795 (5th Cir.2005), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 126 S.Ct. 1812, 164 L.Ed.2d 547 (2006). Because Watkins did not offer any evidence to show that the Presentence Report (PSR) was unreliable or that its factual findings were untrue, the district court did not commit error, plain or otherwise, by accepting the PSR’s drug quantity determination. See United States v. Betancourt, 422 F.3d 240, 248 (5th Cir.2005); United States v. De Jesus-Batres, 410 F.3d 154, 164 (5th Cir.2005), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 126 S.Ct. 1020, 163 L.Ed.2d 865 (2006). Watkins’s sentence, at the bottom of the advisory guidelines range, is presumed reasonable, and Watkins has not rebutted that presumption. See United States v. Alonzo, 435 F.3d 551, 554-55 (5th Cir.2006).

Watkins’s argument that decisions of this court, including United States v. Mares, 402 F.3d 511 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 126 S.Ct. 43, 163 L.Ed.2d 76 (2005), and Alonzo, rendered the Guidelines constructively mandatory is unconvincing. Moreover, a panel of this court may not overrule another panel’s decision without en banc reconsideration or a superseding contrary Supreme Court decision. See United States v. Ruff, 984 F.2d 635, 640 (5th Cir.1993).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.