United States v. El Amin Bashir

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Decided: December 13, 2005
• Docket: 03-13522
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

[DO NOT PUBLISH]

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT _____________________________

No. 03-13522 FILED _____________________________U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT December 13, 2005 D. C. Docket No. 02-00115 CR-J-32-TEMTHOMAS K. KAHN CLERK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee, versus

EL AMIN BASHIR, a.k.a. Lavonne Dallas, a.k.a. Bas, a.k.a. Levonne Dallas, a.k.a. El Amir Bashir,

Defendant-Appellant.

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida _________________________________________ (December 13, 2005)

ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT and COX, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM: A jury convicted Defendant Bashir of federal drug crimes. We affirmed the

conviction. United States v. Bashir, No. 03-13522, 2004 WL 1737101 at *1 (11th

Cir. Jul. 15, 2004) (Table). Bashir appealed our decision to the United States

Supreme Court. The Court vacated the judgment and remanded the case to us in

the light of United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738 (2005). Bashir v. United

States, 125 S. Ct. 1741 (2005).

Bashir raised no Booker/Blakely/Apprendi issue on his initial appeal.

Accordingly, no Booker issue is timely before us. United States v. Dockery, 401

F.3d 1261, 1263 (11th Cir. 2005). See United States v. Ardley, 242 F.3d 989, 990

(11th Cir. 2001) (recognizing that the Supreme Court did not indicate this Court

should ignore “our well-established rule that issues and contentions not timely

raised in the briefs are deemed abandoned”).

On reconsideration, we affirm the conviction and sentence.

AFFIRMED.