Case Name: Santos TORRES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2001-07-30
Citations: 14 F. App'x 701
Docket Number: No. 01-1388
Parties: Santos TORRES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 14
Pages: 701–701

Head Matter:
Santos TORRES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 01-1388.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Submitted July 25, 2001 .
Decided July 30, 2001.
Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, EASTERBROOK, KANNE, Circuit Judges.
After an examination of the briefs and the record, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. Thus, the appeal is submitted on the briefs and the record. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
ORDER
Santos Torres appeals the denial of his motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. We affirm.
Torres was convicted of conspiring to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846, 841(a)(1), and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), and was sentenced to concurrent 87-month terms of imprisonment. In December 2000 Torres moved to vacate his sentences, claiming that they run afoul of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), because drug quantities were not charged in his indictment or proved at trial. The district court denied the motion on the ground that Apprendi does not apply retroactively but then granted Torres a certificate of appealability, stating that reasonable jurists could disagree as to the retroactivity of Apprendi in initial § 2255 proceedings. But irrespective of its retroactivity, Apprendi does not apply to Torres's case because his prison terms do not exceed the default 20-year maximum penalty for cocaine offenses. See 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C); Apprendi, 530 U.S. at 490, 120 S.Ct. 2348. His motion was therefore properly denied.
AFFIRMED.