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Summary: IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 02-10469 Conference Calendar OZIEL GONZALEZ MARTINEZ, Petitioner-Appellant, versus SAM PRATT, Warden, Respondent-Appellee. - Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas USDC No. 3:02-CV-91-R - October 30, 2002 Before DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, and STEWART, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:* Ozeil Gonzalez Martinez, federal prisoner # 75159-9000, was convicted in 1993 of conspiracy to import at least one kilogra
Summary: IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 02-10469 Conference Calendar OZIEL GONZALEZ MARTINEZ, Petitioner-Appellant, versus SAM PRATT, Warden, Respondent-Appellee. - Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas USDC No. 3:02-CV-91-R - October 30, 2002 Before DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, and STEWART, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:* Ozeil Gonzalez Martinez, federal prisoner # 75159-9000, was convicted in 1993 of conspiracy to import at least one kilogram..
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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 02-10469
Conference Calendar
OZIEL GONZALEZ MARTINEZ,
Petitioner-Appellant,
versus
SAM PRATT, Warden,
Respondent-Appellee.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Texas
USDC No. 3:02-CV-91-R
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October 30, 2002
Before DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Ozeil Gonzalez Martinez, federal prisoner # 75159-9000, was
convicted in 1993 of conspiracy to import at least one kilogram
of heroin, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute at
least one kilogram of heroin, and several counts of possession
with intent to distribute heroin. He appeals the district
court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition, wherein he
argued that his sentence of concurrent terms of 210 months’
*
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that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent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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imprisonment for each count was in violation of Apprendi v. New
Jersey,
530 U.S. 466 (2000), because his sentences were based
upon six kilograms of heroin.
The district court determined that Martinez had not met the
requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2255's savings clause and that
Martinez could not raise his claim in a 28 U.S.C. § 2241
petition. His sentences were below the lowest statutory maximum
for his convictions. See 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C). There was no
Apprendi violation. See United States v. Clinton,
256 F.3d 311,
314 (5th Cir.), cert denied,
122 S. Ct. 492 (2001); United States
v. Doggett,
230 F.3d 160, 166 (5th Cir. 2000), cert. denied,
531
U.S. 1177 (2001). Further, the district court’s determination
that Apprendi does not apply retroactively to cases on collateral
review and that an Apprendi claim does not satisfy the
requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2255's savings clause was correct.
See Wesson v. U.S. Penitentiary, Beaumont, TX,
305 F.3d 343 (5th
Cir. 2002).
AFFIRMED.