Court Opinion

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USCA1 Opinion

	

          August 15, 1994                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ____________________        No. 94-1295                                    UNITED STATES,                                      Appellee,                                          v.                             CARLOS M. BURGOS-RODRIGUEZ,                                Defendant, Appellant.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO                    [Hon. Raymond L. Acosta, U.S. District Judge]                                             ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                Cyr, Boudin and Stahl,                                   Circuit Judges.                                   ______________                                 ____________________            Gabriel Hernandez Rivera on brief for appellant            ________________________                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                      Per Curiam.   Defendant argues  that the  five-year                      __________            mandatory  minimum sentence  he  received under  21 U.S.C.               841(b)(1)(B)  constitutes cruel  and  unusual punishment  and            violates his asserted right to individualized sentencing.  We            disagree.  Harmelin v. Michigan,  111 S.Ct. 2680 (1991) (life                       ____________________            imprisonment  without  parole  for possessing  672  grams  of            cocaine  does not  violate the  Eighth Amendment's  cruel and            unusual punishment  clause); United States v.  Cook, 859 F.2d                                         ______________________            777, 778  (9th Cir. 1988)  (mandatory five year  sentence for            first   time  offender   courier   not  cruel   and   unusual            punishment); United States  v. Campusano, 947 F.2d 1,  3 (1st                         ___________________________            Cir. 1991) ("There is no constitutional right, in non-capital            cases, to individualized sentencing").                      The judgment is summarily affirmed.  Local R. 27.1.                                                ________