Court Opinion

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United States Court of Appeals
                             FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
                                    ___________

                                    No. 98-2306
                                    ___________

United States of America,                *
                                         *
             Appellee,                   *
                                         * Appeal from the United States
      v.                                 * District Court for the
                                         * Northern District of Iowa.
Felix Rodriguez-Lara,                    *
                                         *      [UNPUBLISHED]
             Appellant.                  *
                                    ___________

                            Submitted: October 5, 1998
                                Filed: October 8, 1998
                                    ___________

Before McMILLIAN, LOKEN, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.
                            ___________

PER CURIAM.

       After Felix Rodriguez-Lara pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United
States after deportation subsequent to an aggravated felony conviction, in violation of
8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), the district court1 sentenced him to 41 months imprisonment and
three years supervised release. Counsel has filed a brief pursuant to Anders v.
California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), raising challenges to the sentence imposed. We
affirm.

      1
        The HONORABLE MICHAEL J. MELLOY, Chief Judge, United States
District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
       The Anders brief contains a challenge to the district court’s adoption of the
presentence report’s (PSR’s) factual findings. Because Rodriguez-Lara did not raise
any objection to the PSR’s recitation of the facts, however, we conclude the district
court did not err. See United States v. Beatty, 9 F.3d 686, 690 (8th Cir. 1993). We
also reject Rodriguez-Lara’s argument that the district court erroneously adopted the
PSR’s recommended application of the Guidelines, as Rodriguez-Lara stipulated in his
plea agreement to the offense level computation, see United States v. Massey, 57 F.3d
637, 637-38 (8th Cir. 1995) (per curiam), and the district court did not erroneously
compute Rodriguez-Lara’s criminal history score.

       In the Anders brief, counsel argues for the first time that Rodriguez-Lara’s Fifth
Amendment right against double jeopardy was violated when the district court used his
prior convictions to calculate his sentencing range and criminal history category. After
carefully reviewing the record, we conclude the district court did not plainly err. See
United States v. Montanye, 996 F.2d 190, 192 (8th Cir. 1993) (en banc); United States
v. Shaw, 26 F.3d 700, 700-01 (7th Cir. 1994); United States v. Thomas, 895 F.2d
1198, 1201 (8th Cir. 1990); United States v. Wright, 891 F.2d 209, 212 (9th Cir.
1989).

      Upon review of the record in accordance with Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 80
(1988), we find no nonfrivolous issues. Accordingly, we affirm.

      A true copy.

             Attest:

                     CLERK, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT.

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