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affirming thatAlmendarez-Torres is controlling law post-Apprendi
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No. 00-11508.
November 14, 2000.
Henry P. Bell, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def., Kathleen M. Williams, Fed. Pub. Def., Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Harriet Galvin, Asst. U.S. Atty., Anne R. Schultz, Dawn Bowen, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (No. 99-00337-CR-ASG); Alan S. Gold, Judge.
Lester Javier Guadamuz-Solis ("Solis") appeals his sentence of 96 months' imprisonment and 3 years' supervised release for a conviction for illegal reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). He argues that Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000) has called into question the decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 118 S.Ct. 1219, 140 L.Ed.2d 350 (1998), which controls this case. Almendarez-Torres remains the law until the Supreme Court determines that Almendarez-Torres is not controlling precedent. Accordingly, we
AFFIRM.