Court Opinion

ID: 8599998
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 21:19:34.090096+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:55:09.669444
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM: *
Jose Escobar-Reyes appeals from his guilty-plea conviction for illegal reentry of a deported alien. Escobar-Reyes argues that 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is unconstitutional on its face and as applied in his case because it does not require the fact of a prior felony or aggravated felony convic*300tion to be charged in the indictment and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Escobar-Reyes acknowledges that his argument is foreclosed by Almendarez-Torres v. United, States, 528 U.S. 224, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998), but asserts that the decision has been cast into doubt by Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). He seeks to preserve his argument for further review. Apprendi did not overrule Almendarez-Torres. See Apprendi, 530 U.S. at 489-90, 120 S.Ct. 2348; United-States v. Dabeit, 231 F.3d 979, 984 (5th Cir.2000). This court must follow Almendarez-Torres “unless and until the Supreme Court itself determines to overrule it.” Dabeit, 231 F.3d at 984 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
AFFIRMED.

 Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.