United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Ramon Eduardo Castillo-bejarano, Aka Ramon E. Bajarano,defendant-appellant, 145 F.3d 1341 (9th Cir. 1998)

MEMORANDUM^* 

Ramon Eduardo Castillo-Bejarano interlocutorily appeals the district court's denial of his motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds an indictment charging him with illegal reentry into the United States following deportation for an aggravated felony, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. We dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.

Under the "collateral order exception," this court has jurisdiction to consider interlocutory appeals of double jeopardy claims. See Abney v. United States, 431 U.S. 651, 662, 97 S. Ct. 2034, 52 L. Ed. 2d 651 (1977). This is not such a claim.

Castillo-Bejarano contends that his prior deportation proceeding subjected him to double jeopardy and that it cannot, therefore, be used to prove an element of the crime with which he is charged in this case--reentering the United States after having been deported for the commission of an aggravated felony. However, he does not claim that this trial subjects him to double jeopardy, except in the derivative fashion that his deportation subjected him to double jeopardy and that this trial depends on the lawfulness of his deportation. While Castillo-Bejarano might have a right to challenge the lawfulness of his deportation proceeding in an appeal arising from a conviction in this case, see United States v. Mendoza-Lopez, 481 U.S. 828, 839, 107 S. Ct. 2148, 95 L. Ed. 2d 772 (1987), nothing in Mendoza-Lopez authorizes us to consider this question in an interlocutory appeal.

DISMISSED.