United States v. David Goodman

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

United States v. David Goodman

Opinion

USCA11 Case: 21-13641 Date Filed: 09/28/2022 Page: 1 of 3

[DO NOT PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit

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No. 21-13641 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus DAVID GOODMAN,

Defendant-Appellant.

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida D.C. Docket No. 1:20-tp-20032-MGC-1 ____________________ USCA11 Case: 21-13641 Date Filed: 09/28/2022 Page: 2 of 3

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Before ROSENBAUM, GRANT, and LAGOA, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: David Goodman appeals his 33 months’ sentence imposed by the district court upon revocation of supervised release. On ap- peal, he argues that, during the revocation hearing, the district court failed to address his objection that his criminal history cate- gory should have been IV, rather than V, based on an inconsistency between two of the paragraphs in the presentence investigation re- port (“PSI”) from his original sentencing. For the following rea- sons, we affirm. I. We review the sentence imposed upon the revocation of su- pervised release for reasonableness. United States v. Velasquez Ve- lasquez, 524 F.3d 1248, 1252 (11th Cir. 2008). We review the rea- sonableness of a sentence under an abuse of discretion stand- ard. United States v. Kuhlman, 711 F.3d 1321, 1326 (11th Cir. 2013). The burden of establishing unreasonableness lies with the party challenging the sentence. Id. “A ‘non-constitutional error is harmless if, viewing the pro- ceedings in their entirety, a court determines that the error did not affect the sentence, “or had but very slight effect.”’” United States v. Mathenia, 409 F.3d 1289, 1292 (11th Cir. 2005) (alterations adopted) (quoting United States v. Hornaday, 392 F.3d 1306, 1315– 16 (11th Cir. 2004)). USCA11 Case: 21-13641 Date Filed: 09/28/2022 Page: 3 of 3

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II. “The criminal history category [for a guideline range based on a violation of supervised release] is the category applicable at the time the defendant was originally sentenced to a term of super- vision.” U.S.S.G. § 7B1.4 cmt. n.1. “The criminal history category is not to be recalculated [except in] the rare case in which no crim- inal history category was determined when the defendant origi- nally was sentenced.” Id. Similarly, we have held that a defendant facing incarceration upon the revocation of supervised release may not challenge the validity of his original sentence during the revocation proceed- ings. United States v. Almand, 992 F.2d 316, 317–18 (11th Cir. 1993). Instead, such challenges may be raised only by collateral at- tack through a separate proceeding. Id. at 317. Here, even if the district court committed the procedural er- ror of failing to address Goodman’s objection, that error was harm- less. The district court could not recalculate Goodman’s original criminal history category based on this new objection to how that category was determined. Indeed, U.S.S.G. § 7B1.4(a) required that the district court use “the category determined at the time the de- fendant originally was sentenced to the term of supervision,” which here was a category of V. Accordingly, we affirm. AFFIRMED.

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