Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Agustin CRUZ-AGUILAR, also known as Emilio Avitio-Henes, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-08-17
Citations: 141 F. App'x 322
Docket Number: No. 04-40801
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Agustin CRUZ-AGUILAR, also known as Emilio Avitio-Henes, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 141
Pages: 322–323

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Agustin CRUZ-AGUILAR, also known as Emilio Avitio-Henes, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 04-40801.
Conference Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Decided Aug. 17, 2005.
James Lee Turner, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for PlaintiffAppellee.
Roland E. Dahlin, II, Federal Public Defender, Molly E. Odom, Federal Public Defender’s Office Southern District of Texas, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before BENAVIDES, CLEMENT, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Agustín Cruz-Aguilar appeals his sentence following his guilty-plea conviction of illegal reentry, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2). The district court sentenced him to 63 months of imprisonment, two years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment.
For the first time on appeal, Cruz-Aguilar argues that, under United States v. Booker, — U.S. -, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), this court must vacate his sentence and remand for resentencing because the mandatory guideline regime was in place at the time of his sentencing. An unpreserved challenge to the application of the formerly mandatory sentencing guidelines is reviewed for plain error. United States v. Valenzuela-Quevedo, 407 F.3d 728, 733 (5th Cir.2005), petition for cert. filed (July 25, 2005) (No. 05-5556).
The district court's application of the guidelines in their mandatory form constituted error that is "plain" for purposes of satisfying the first two prongs of the plain error analysis. Id. Cruz-Aguilar also bears the burden of demonstrating "that the sentencing judge — sentencing under an advisory scheme rather than a mandatory one — would have reached a significantly different result." See United States v. Mares, 402 F.3d 511, 521 (5th Cir.2005), petition for cert. filed (Mar. 31, 2005) (No. 04-9517). Cruz-Aguilar has not made such a showing.
Cruz-Aguilar also argues that 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is unconstitutional under Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), because it does not require the fact of a prior felony or aggravated-felony conviction to be charged in the indictment and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. As Cruz-Aguilar concedes, this argument is foreclosed by Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998), and Almendarez-Torres was not overruled by Apprendi. See United States v. Sarmiento-Funes, 374 F.3d 336, 346 (5th Cir.2004). Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is 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.