Court Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                       FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                              No. 00-4857

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                               Plaintiff - Appellee,

          versus

PIERRE BERNARD TURNER,

                                              Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Greenbelt. Deborah K. Chasanow, District Judge. (CR-
00-138)

Submitted:   March 16, 2001                 Decided:   August 1, 2001

Before WILKINS and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

James Wyda, Federal Public Defender, Daniel William Stiller, Assis-
tant Federal Public Defender, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant.
Stephen Matthew Schenning, United States Attorney, Stuart A.
Berman, Assistant United States Attorney, Greenbelt, Maryland, for
Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:

     Pierre B. Turner pled guilty to being a felon in possession of

a firearm.    He received an enhanced sentence as an armed career

criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) (1994).   The Government moved to

dismiss Turner’s appeal pursuant to the appeal waiver in his plea

agreement. Although we deny the Government’s motion to dismiss, we

affirm Turner’s conviction and sentence.

     Turner contends that the district court lacked the authority

to impose a sentence over ten years of imprisonment, in light of

Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), because his prior

convictions were neither charged in the indictment nor proven

beyond a reasonable doubt.   We find that Apprendi does not apply to

Turner’s enhanced sentence for being an armed career criminal.

United States v. Dorris, 236 F.3d 582, 587-88 (10th Cir. 2000)

(holding that § 924(e) sentence not affected by Apprendi).

     Accordingly, we affirm Turner’s conviction and sentence.    We

dispense with oral argument, because the facts and legal conten-

tions are adequately presented in the materials before the court

and argument would not aid the decisional process.

                                                           AFFIRMED

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