
USCA1 Opinion

	




        September 12, 1996      [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ____________________        No. 96-1492                                    UNITED STATES,                                       Appellee                                          v.                                  JORGE BAEZ-ORTEGA,                                 A/K/A JOSE REYNOSO,                               A/K/A JUAN CARLOS RAMOS,                                Defendant, Appellant.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO                    [Hon. Hector M. Laffitte, U.S. District Judge]                                              ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                Torruella, Chief Judge,                                           ___________                            Cyr and Stahl, Circuit Judges.                                           ______________                                 ____________________            Benicio Sanchez Rivera,  Federal Public Defender for the  District            ______________________        of  Puerto  Rico,  and  Gustavo  A.  Gelpi, Assistant  Federal  Public                                __________________        Defendant, on brief for appellant.            Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Joseph J.  Frattallone,            _____________                              ______________________        Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                      Per Curiam.   The defendant-appellant, Jorge  Baez-                      __________            Ortega,  appeals  his  conviction  for  illegal  entry  of  a            deported alien under 8  U.S.C.   1326(b)(2).  He  claims that            he did not validly  waive his right to appeal  the underlying            deportation order.   After  carefully reviewing the  parties'            briefs  and  the entire  record,  and  for substantially  the            reasons  set forth in the  district court opinion, see United                                                               ___ ______            States  v. Baez-Ortega,  906  F.Supp. 740  (D.P.R. 1995),  we            ______     ___________            affirm.                      Affirmed.  See Loc. R. 27.1.                      ________   ___                                         -2-
