Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luis Manuel BEDOLLA-ALMANZA, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-04-20
Citations: 125 F. App'x 603
Docket Number: No. 04-41159
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luis Manuel BEDOLLA-ALMANZA, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before SMITH, CLEMENT, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 125
Pages: 603–604

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luis Manuel BEDOLLA-ALMANZA, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 04-41159.
Conference Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Decided April 20, 2005.
James Lee Turner, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Marjorie A. Meyers, Margaret Christina Ling, Assistant Federal Public Defenders, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before SMITH, CLEMENT, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Luis Manuel Bedolla-Almanza appeals from the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to attempted illegal reentry. He argues pursuant to Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), that Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 235, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998), should be overruled. He concedes that his constitutional argument is foreclosed by Almendarez-Torres, and he raises it solely to preserve its further review by the Supreme Court.
Apprendi did not overrule Almendarez-Torres. See Apprendi, 530 U.S. at 489-90, 120 S.Ct. 2348; United States v. Dabeit, 231 F.3d 979, 984 (5th Cir.2000). The Supreme Court's recent decisions in Shepard v. United States, — U.S.-,-- -& n. 5, 125 S.Ct. 1254, 1262-63 & n. 5, 161 L.Ed.2d 205 & n. 5 (2005), United States v. Booker, — U.S.-,-, 125 S.Ct. 738, 756, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), and Blakely v. Washington, — U.S. -, -, 124 S.Ct. 2531, 2537, 159 L.Ed.2d 403 (2004), also did not overrule AlmendarezTorres. We therefore must follow Almendarez-Torres "unless and until the Supreme Court itself determines to overrule it." Dabeit, 231 F.3d at 984 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
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Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.