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               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.

               _________________________________________

                  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.




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