Court Opinion

ID: 29596
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Date Created: 2010-04-25 09:42:21+00
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                      For the Fifth Circuit

           No. 00-50413 consolidated with No. 00-51142

                    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                                                  Plaintiff-Appellee

                             VERSUS

               ERNEST CORTINAS, also known as Neto

                                               Defendant-Appellant

                    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                                                  Plaintiff-Appellee

                             VERSUS

                         JIM NEWTON BARR

                                               Defendant-Appellant

          Appeal from the United States District Court
                For the Western District of Texas

                          (W-99-CV-170)

                         December 20, 2002

Before DAVIS, BENAVIDES, DENNIS, Circuit Judges
PER CURIAM:*

      This appeal is controlled by our decision in United States v.

Brown, 305 F.3d 304 (5th Cir. 2002).   The district court’s denial

of Cortinas’s 28 U.S.C. § 2255 application is 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opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under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.

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