Court Opinion

ID: 9495984
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:14:45.170579+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:57:18.050301
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LYNCH, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the affirmance of the sentence. As to Goodine’s argument that drug quantity under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) is an element of a crime and not a sentencing factor, I think the argument is foreclosed by United States v. Robinson, 241 F.3d 115, 118 (1st Cir.2001), United States v. Eirby, 262 F.3d 31, 35-38 (1st Cir.2001), and United States v. Lindia, 82 F.3d 1154, 1160-61 (1st Cir.1996). The claim that there is a violation of the rule of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), is foreclosed by Harris v. United States, 536 U.S. 545, 122 S.Ct. 2406, 153 L.Ed.2d 524 (2002).