Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Francisco Javier RODRIGUEZ, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-03-02
Citations: 89 F. App'x 446
Docket Number: No. 03-10654
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Francisco Javier RODRIGUEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before JOLLY, JONES, and WIENER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 89
Pages: 446–447

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Francisco Javier RODRIGUEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 03-10654.
Summary Calendar
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
March 2, 2004.
Aaron Wiley, US Attorney’s Office, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Peter Michael Fleury, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Fort Worth, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before JOLLY, JONES, and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Francisco Javier Rodriguez appeals his conviction and sentence for illegal reentry after deportation. Rodriguez has filed a motion for leave to file an out-of-time reply brief; that motion is GRANTED. He first argues on appeal that the district court erred in its application of U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2 by counting three prior drug convictions separately, which increased his criminal history score and resulted in a higher guideline range. We conclude that Rodriguez has not shown that the district court clearly erred in finding that the prior cases were not consolidated. See Buford v. United States, 532 U.S. 59, 64-66, 121 S.Ct. 1276, 149 L.Ed.2d 197 (2001); United States v. Moreno-Arredondo, 255 F.3d 198, 203 n. 10 (5th Cir.2001). "The applicability vel non of Tex. Penal Code § 3.03 does not affect our analysis." United States v. Fitzhugh, 984 F.2d 143, 147 n.18 (5th Cir.1993).
The district court did not clearly err in finding that the three prior offenses were unrelated. Rodriguez's three convictions involved three separate transactions over a three-month period involving differing amounts of cocaine. Furthermore, although Rodriguez was charged for all of the offenses on the same day by the same judge and his sentences were concurrent, he was indicted separately for each offense, each indictment was assigned a different docket number, and the sentences were not all the same length. The foregoing suggests that the two offenses should not be considered consolidated for federal sentencing purposes. See United States v. Huskey, 137 F.3d 283, 288 (5th Cir.1998); United States v. Kates, 174 F.3d 580, 584 (5th Cir.1999).
Rodriguez also argues that his guilty plea was not voluntary because the district court did not admonish him that the "aggravated felony" provision of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2) stated an essential element of the offense to which he was pleading guilty. He acknowledges that his arguments are foreclosed by circuit precedent, but he seeks to preserve the issue for possible Supreme Court review in light of the Supreme court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 519, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). As Rodriguez concedes, this issue is foreclosed. See Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 247, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998); United States v. Dabeit, 231 F.3d 979, 984 (5th Cir.2000).
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.