Court Opinion

ID: 7127130
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 14:56:10.904278+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:14:19.207573
License: Public Domain

MEMORANDUM **
Jorge Noel Bernal-Rajon appeals the sentence imposed following his guilty plea to illegal reentry after deportation in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a).
Bernal-Rajon contends that in light of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), the district court improperly imposed a sentence in excess of the two year maximum set forth in 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). He acknowledges that his contention is foreclosed by this court’s recent holdings, see e.g., United States v. Arellano-Rivera, 244 F.3d 1119, 1126-27 (9th Cir.2001), but urges this court to reconsider those holdings. Because a panel “may not reconsider the correctness of an earlier panel’s decisions,” Ladha v. INS, 215 F.3d 889, 896 (9th Cir.2000), we affirm the district court.
AFFIRMED.

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