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No. 08-4921
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Richmond.
Robert E. Payne, Senior
District Judge. (3:07-cr-00463-REP-1)
Submitted:
August 4, 2009
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Antonio
Augustine-Neri
was
convicted
after
bench
been
deported
following
conviction
for
an
The
district
court
sentenced
Augustine-Neri
to
125
Finding
no error, we affirm.
Augustine-Neri first challenges the district courts
application of a sixteen-level upward adjustment in calculating
the advisory guidelines range.
Augustine-Neri argues
under
the
guidelines.
See
USSG
4A1.2.
Therefore,
Because
Augustine-Neri
failed
to
challenge
the
249
(4th
Cir.
[Augustine-Neri]
must
To
that
an
establish
error
plain
occurred,
error,
that
the
error was plain, and that the error affected his substantial
rights.
Id.
requirements,
Even
if
correction
Augustine-Neri
of
the
error
satisfies
remains
these
within
[the
reputation
quotation
marks
of
and
judicial
proceedings.
citation
omitted).
Id.
We
have
(internal
thoroughly
next
challenges
the
indictment
and
the
Sixth
Amendment
to
jury
trial
because
prior
Augustine-Neri
sentence
on
Jersey,
530
the
grounds
U.S.
466
did
not
object
that
they
(2000)
in
3
to
the
violated
the
indictment
Apprendi
district
v.
court
or
New
and,
v.
Olano,
507
U.S.
725,
731-32
(1993).
See United
However,
as
convictions.
In
addition,
the
mere
fact
that
the
increased
Augustine-Neris
repeatedly
process)
recognized,
does
conviction
pleaded
not
used
in
an
as
the
demand
a
argument.
Sixth
that
basis
indictment
for
and
As
Amendment
the
a
mere
this
(as
fact
sentencing
submitted
to
court
well
of
has
as
a
prior
enhancement
jury
for
due
be
proof
the
indictment
and
was
not
required
to
prove
the
prior
Moreover, Augustine-Neri
jury,
and
proved
beyond
reasonable
doubt.).
We
guidelines
range
based
on
Augustine-Neris
family
at
249.
We
have
thoroughly
reviewed
the
record
and
court
erred
guidelines range.
in
sentencing
him
within
the
advisory
reasonableness
for
within-guidelines
sentence);
Gall
v.
United States, 552 U.S. 38, ___, 128 S. Ct. 586, 597 (2007) (we
review first for procedural error and then consider substantive
reasonableness of sentence imposed).
Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district
court.
legal
are
adequately
presented
in
the
materials
before the court and argument would not aid in the decisional
process.
AFFIRMED