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Date Created: 2023-04-05 18:00:53.014884+00
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Case: 22-50899         Document: 00516701788             Page: 1      Date Filed: 04/05/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                                United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                         Fifth Circuit
                                      No. 22-50899
                                  consolidated with                                     FILED
                                      No. 22-50913                                    April 5, 2023
                                    Summary Calendar                              Lyle W. Cayce
                                    _____________                                      Clerk

   United States of America,

                                                                       Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                             versus

   Jose Manuel Eguis-Portillo,

                                               Defendant—Appellant.
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                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                           for the Western District of Texas
                       USDC Nos. 4:22-CR-358-1, 4:18-CR-37-1
                      ______________________________

   Before Smith, Southwick, and Douglas, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Jose Manuel Eguis-Portillo appeals his conviction and sentence for
   illegal entry after deportation in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2), as
   well as the judgment revoking his term of supervised release for a prior
   offense. He has not briefed, and has therefore abandoned, any challenge to

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          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-50899      Document: 00516701788         Page: 2    Date Filed: 04/05/2023

                                    No. 22-50899
                                  c/w No. 22-50913

   the revocation of supervised release or his revocation sentence. See Yohey v.
   Collins, 985 F.2d 222, 224–25 (5th Cir. 1993).
          For the first time on appeal, Eguis-Portillo contends that Section
   1326(b) is unconstitutional because it allows for a sentence above the
   otherwise applicable statutory maximum based on facts that are neither
   alleged in the indictment nor found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. He
   has filed an unopposed motion for summary disposition and a letter brief
   explaining that he raises this issue only to preserve it for further review and
   conceding correctly that it is foreclosed by Almendarez-Torres v. United
   States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). See United States v. Pervis, 937 F.3d 546, 553–54
   (5th Cir. 2019). The motion is GRANTED, and the district court’s
   judgments are AFFIRMED.

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