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Date Created: 2023-12-16 01:00:43.713724+00
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Case: 23-50535         Document: 00517003747             Page: 1      Date Filed: 12/15/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                                United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                         Fifth Circuit
                                       No. 23-50535
                                     Summary Calendar                                  FILED
                                     ____________                              December 15, 2023
                                                                                  Lyle W. Cayce
   United States of America,                                                           Clerk

                                                                       Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                             versus

   Efrain Rodriguez-Perez,

                                               Defendant—Appellant.
                      ______________________________

                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                           for the Western District of Texas
                                USDC No. 1:23-CR-41-1
                      ______________________________

   Before Higginbotham, Stewart, and Southwick, Circuit
   Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Efrain Rodriguez-Perez appeals his conviction and sentence for illegal
   reentry after removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b). In his sole issue on
   appeal, Rodriguez-Perez contends that § 1326(b) is unconstitutional because
   it allows a sentence above the otherwise applicable statutory maximum based
   on facts that are neither alleged in the indictment nor found by a jury beyond
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          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-50535      Document: 00517003747          Page: 2   Date Filed: 12/15/2023

                                    No. 23-50535

   a reasonable doubt.     He has filed an unopposed motion for summary
   disposition and a letter brief explaining that he has raised this issue only to
   preserve it for further review and conceding correctly that this issue 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), Rodriguez-Perez’s motion is GRANTED,
   and the district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED.

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