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Date Created: 2023-01-10 01:00:24.650541+00
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Case: 22-50468     Document: 00516603094         Page: 1     Date Filed: 01/09/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
                                                                     United States Court of Appeals
                                                                              Fifth Circuit
                                  No. 22-50468
                                Summary Calendar                            FILED
                                                                      January 9, 2023
                                                                       Lyle W. Cayce
   United States of America,                                                Clerk

                                                             Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                       versus

   Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas,

                                                         Defendant—Appellant.

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Western District of Texas
                            USDC No. 4:22-CR-11-1

   Before Jones, Stewart, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam:*
          Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas appeals the 30-month sentence and
   three-year term of supervised release imposed after his guilty plea conviction
   for illegal reentry after having previously been deported, pursuant to
   8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2). Cejudo-Mancinas contends that it violates the

          *
            Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 47.5, the court has determined that this
   opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited
   circumstances set forth in 5th Circuit Rule 47.5.4.
Case: 22-50468     Document: 00516603094           Page: 2   Date Filed: 01/09/2023

                                    No. 22-50468

   Constitution to treat a prior conviction that increases the statutory maximum
   under § 1326(b) as a sentencing factor, rather than as an element of the
   offense. He concedes that this issue is foreclosed by Almendarez-Torres v.
   United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), but he seeks to preserve the issue for
   future review. In addition, he has filed an unopposed motion for summary
   disposition.
          As Cejudo-Mancinas concedes, the sole issue raised on appeal is
   foreclosed by Almendarez-Torres. See United States v. Pervis, 937 F.3d 546,
   553-54 (5th Cir. 2019); United States v. Wallace, 759 F.3d 486, 497 (5th Cir.
   2014). Because his position “is clearly right as a matter of law so that there
   can be no substantial question as to the outcome of the case,” Groendyke
   Transp., Inc. v. Davis, 406 F.2d 1158, 1162 (5th Cir. 1969), summary
   disposition is proper. Accordingly, Cejudo-Mancinas’s motion for summary
   disposition is GRANTED, and the judgment of the district court is
   AFFIRMED.

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