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Date Created: 2023-01-09 00:00:37.430046+00
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Case: 22-50349        Document: 00516601203             Page: 1      Date Filed: 01/06/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                              United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                       Fifth Circuit
                                      No. 22-50349
                                    Summary Calendar                                 FILED
                                    ____________                               January 6, 2023
                                                                                Lyle W. Cayce
   United States of America,                                                         Clerk

                                                                     Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Antonio Avila-Olivares,

                                              Defendant—Appellant.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Western District of Texas
                              USDC No. 4:21-CR-1015-1
                     ______________________________

   Before Davis, Duncan, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Antonio Avila-Olivares appeals his conviction and sentence for illegal
   reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2), contending that the
   enhancement of his sentence pursuant to § 1326(b) is unconstitutional
   because the fact of a prior conviction was not charged and proved 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
         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-50349     Document: 00516601203           Page: 2   Date Filed: 01/06/2023

                                    No. 22-50349

   preserve it for further review and correctly conceding it to be 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), Avila-Olivares’s motion is
   GRANTED, and the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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