Court Opinion

ID: 7216251
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-25 01:45:47.555006+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:17:01.293904
License: Public Domain

MEMORANDUM**
Amoldo Rios-Barboza appeals his conviction by guilty plea and sentence for unlawful reentry by a deported alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. Rios-Barboza contends that his sentence in excess of the two-year maximum set forth in 8 U. S.C. § 1326(a) violates the due process requirement articulated in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, *747147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), in that elements necessary to impose the enhanced sentence — the fact that an alien has been removed and suffered an aggravated felony before removal — were neither pled in the indictment nor proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Acknowledging that this court has rejected his argument, see United States v. Castillo-Rivera, 244 F.3d 1020, 1024-25 (9th Cir.2001) (rejecting contention that Apprendi’s recidivism exception is somehow inapplicable to an aggravated felony enhancement under § 1326 because removal must have been subsequent to an aggravated felony conviction), Rios-Barboza states that he raises the issue in order to preserve it in the event the Supreme Court overrules contrary authority-
AFFIRMED.

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