Court Opinion

ID: 7127371
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 15:14:14.555393+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:14:19.638483
License: Public Domain

MEMORANDUM **
Luis Enrique Diaz-Valencia appeals the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to unlawful reentry of a deported alien after conviction for an aggravated felony, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). Diaz-Valencia contends that under Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), the district court deprived him of due process by imposing a sentence greater than Section 1326(a)’s two-year maximum based on Diaz-Valencia’s prior aggravated felony, where Diaz-Valencia did not admit to having previously committed an aggravated felony. Diaz-Valencia, who states that he presents the issue merely to preserve it in the event of ensuing favorable Supreme Court precedent, acknowledges that the argument is foreclosed by United States v. Pacheco-Zepeda, 234 F.3d 411 (9th Cir.2000) (as amended).
AFFIRMED.

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