Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit June 25, 2001, No. 00-50254; D.C. No. CR-99-00117-GLT (United States v. Salgado-Castillo)

MEMORANDUM2

Artemio Salgado-Castillo appeals the 57-month sentence imposed following his guilty plea to being an alien found in the United States following deportation. Sal-gado-Castillo contends that in light of Ap-prendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), the district court erred in imposing a sentence in excess of the two-year maximum set forth in 8 U.S.C.