Court Opinion

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                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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        No. 96-1920

                                    UNITED STATES,

                                      Appellee,

                                          v.

                                    YUSUF TORRES,

                                Defendant, Appellant.

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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

                    [Hon. Paul J. Barbadoro, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                                 Selya, Circuit Judge,
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                              Cyr, Senior Circuit Judge,
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                              and Lynch, Circuit Judge.
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            Janet H. Pumphrey on brief for appellant.
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            Paul  M.  Gagnon,  United  States  Attorney,  and  Jean  B.  Weld,
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        Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.

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                                  February 12, 1997
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                 Per Curiam.   Defendant appeals from his sentence on the
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            sole  ground that  the district  court  erred "in  failing to

            consider a downward departure  under U.S.S.G.   5K2.0 because

            the 100-to-1  penalty for  crack and powder  cocaine violates

            the equal  protection clause."  He  specifically argues that,

            when   Congress   disapproved  the   Sentencing  Commission's

            proposal  to  equalize  those penalties,  it  violated  equal

            protection.  However, we  already have rejected the substance

            of that argument.  See  United States v. Andrade, 94 F.3d  9,
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            14-15 (1st Cir. 1996); United States  v. Singleterry, 29 F.3d
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            733, 739-41 (1st  Cir.), cert. denied, 115 S.Ct.  647 (1994).
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            Defendant presents no discernible reason to diverge from that

            precedent.

                 The sentence is affirmed.  See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.
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