Opinion ID: 2995295
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: issues

Text: Garcia raises three issues on appeal: (1) that pursuant to the holding in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), the sentencing judge committed error by not requiring the government to charge in the indictment that his 1988 Illinois conviction was an aggravated felony; (2) alternatively, that the district court erred in determining that the 1988 conviction was an attempted theft offense, and thus an aggravated felony, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. sec. 1326(b)(2), and 8 U.S.C. sec. 1101(a)(43); and (3) that the trial court erred when concluding that it lacked the authority to order a downward departure from the 16 point enhancement Garcia received for committing an aggravated felony, pursuant to Application Note 5 of U.S.S.G sec. 2L1.2.