Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Josef VADINA, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-05-27
Citations: 132 F. App'x 732
Docket Number: No. 04-30176; D.C. No. CR-03-00045-DWM
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Josef VADINA, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 132
Pages: 732–732

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Josef VADINA, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 04-30176.
D.C. No. CR-03-00045-DWM.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted April 4, 2005.
Decided May 27, 2005.
Paulette L. Stewart, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Helena, MT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
John P. Rhodes, David C. Avery, Missoula, MT, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before GOULD, TALLMAN, and RAWHNSON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
1. The district court properly denied the defendant's motion to suppress the ammunition and firearm found during a search of the defendant's trailer. Vadina expressly consented to the search, and the district court did not clearly err in the determining that his consent was freely and voluntarily given. See United States v. Patayan Soriano, 361 F.3d 494, 501-02 (9th Cir.2004).
2. The district court properly factored Vadina's prior aggravated felony conviction into his sentencing calculus. Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998), has not been vitiated by Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), or subsequent Supreme Court precedent. See United States v. Cortez-Arias, 403 F.3d 1111, 1114 n. 8 (9th Cir.2005); see also United States v. Quintana-Quintana, 383 F.3d 1052, 1053 (9th Cir.2004) ("We have repeatedly acknowledged that Apprendi carves out an exception for the fact of a prior conviction.") (citation omitted).
AFFIRMED.
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