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Parties Involved:
Timothy D. Still
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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The Honorable Henry E. Autrey, United States District Judge for the Eastern

District of Missouri. 

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 04-3974

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United States of America, *

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Appellee, * Appeal from the United States

* District Court for the Eastern

v. * District of Missouri.

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Timothy D. Still, * [UNPUBLISHED]

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Appellant. * 

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Submitted: January 9, 2006

Filed: January 13, 2006

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Before MURPHY, FAGG, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Timothy D. Still pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

After the Supreme Court decided Blakely v. Washington, 124 S. Ct. 2531 (2004), but

before the Court decided United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738 (2005), the district

court*

 sentenced Still to sixty months in prison and two years of supervised release.

Still appeals.

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Acknowledging our contrary case law, see United States v. Nolan, 397 F.3d

665, 666-67 (8th Cir. 2005), Still first argues the district court committed error in

classifying his earlier conviction for burglarizing a commercial building as a crime

of violence. We must follow our earlier holdings foreclosing Still’s argument,

however, and only the court en banc can overrule them. United States v. Purkey, 428

F.3d 738, 762-63 (8th Cir. 2005).

Still also asserts the Sixth Amendment requires that his earlier conviction be

proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. We have recognized that even after

Booker, the fact of an earlier conviction is for the court, not a jury. Nolan, 397 F.3d

at 667 n.2; United States v. Cerna-Salguero, 399 F.3d 887, 887-88 (8th Cir. 2005); see

Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 489-90 (2000); Booker, 125 S. Ct. at 756. 

We thus affirm Still’s sentence. 

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