Bert

United States v. Bert

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83 F. App'x 202
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 11, 2003No. 03-10035California348 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Lamance Cookie Bert seeks reversal of the district court’s judgment sentencing him to 240 months of imprisonment with three concurrent terms of ten years of supervised release. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Bert relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 , 120 S.Ct. 2348 , 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), in his contention that the district court erred when it enhanced his sentence based on a prior conviction not charged in an indictment or proved beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury. However, as Bert concedes, we rejected the same argument in United States v. Pacheco-Zapeda, 234 F.3d 411 , 414 (9th Cir.2001).

Bert also contends that the district court erred in imposing ten-year periods of supervised release for counts two and three. He contends that the required “term of supervised release of at least 6 years” for count two, and “at least 8 years” for count three, under 21 U.S.C. § 841 (b)(1), are limited by U.S.S.G. § 5D1.2(b), which reads: “Except as otherwise provided, the *203 term of supervised release imposed shall not be less than any statutorily required term of supervised release.” Bert contends that U.S.S.G. § 5D1.2(b)…

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