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Date Created: 2023-05-05 00:00:30.87051+00
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Case: 22-50902    Document: 00516738924       Page: 1    Date Filed: 05/04/2023

          United States Court of Appeals
               for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                 United States Court of Appeals
                                                                          Fifth Circuit
                                No. 22-50902
                              Summary Calendar                          FILED
                              ____________                           May 4, 2023
                                                                   Lyle W. Cayce
   United States of America,                                            Clerk

                                                         Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                    versus

   Everardo Joe Flores-Salcido,

                                                      Defendant—Appellant,

                           consolidated with
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                               No. 22-50903
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   United States of America,

                                                         Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                    versus

   Everado Flores-Salcido,

                                          Defendant—Appellant.
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                 Appeals from the United States District Court
                      for the Western District of Texas
Case: 22-50902         Document: 00516738924             Page: 2      Date Filed: 05/04/2023

                            USDC Nos. 4:19-CR-186-1,
                                4:22-CR-343-1
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   Before Higginbotham, Graves, and Ho, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Everado Joe Flores-Salcido’s appeal of the six-month sentence of
   imprisonment imposed following his guilty plea conviction for illegal reentry
   after deportation from the United States has been consolidated with his
   appeal of the judgment revoking the term of supervised release he was serving
   at the time of the offense. Because his appellate brief does not address the
   revocation or the revocation sentence, he abandons any challenge to that
   judgment. See Yohey v. Collins, 985 F.2d 222, 224-25 (5th Cir. 1993).
          Flores-Salcido challenges the district court’s application of the
   enhanced penalty range in § 1326(b) as unconstitutional because it permits a
   defendant to be sentenced above the statutory maximum of § 1326(a) based
   on the fact of a prior conviction that was not alleged in the indictment or
   found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. He raises the issue to preserve it
   for further review and has filed an unopposed motion for summary
   disposition, correctly conceding 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).
          Because summary disposition is appropriate, see Groendyke Transp.,
   Inc. v. Davis, 406 F.2d 1158, 1162 (5th Cir. 1969), Flores-Salcido’s motion is
   GRANTED, and the district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED.

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              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.

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