United States v. Perez-Saenz
United States v. Perez-Saenz
Opinion of the Court
SUMMARY ORDER
Defendant-appellant Manuel PerezSaenz appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Feuerstein, J.), entered on August 23, 2007, convicting him following a guilty plea of illegally reentering the United States after being deported and convicted of an aggravated felony, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). The district court sentenced Saenz principally to 120 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the facts and procedural history of the case.
Saenz argues that the district court erred in failing to give him adequate notice of its intent to upwardly depart from the applicable Guidelines range. See Fed. R.Crim.P. 32(h) (requiring a district court to give reasonable notice of any ground not identified for departure in either the presentence report or in a party’s submission on which the court is contemplating a departure). The government agrees that the district court failed to give adequate notice of the basis on which it was contemplating a departure. Accordingly, we remand for resentencing to give the defendant an opportunity to respond properly to the sentencing judge’s views. See United States v. Anati, 457 F.3d 233, 238 (2d Cir. 2006).
Saenz also requests that we reassign his case to a different judge. We deny that request, having no reason to believe the
For the foregoing reasons, we VACATE the judgment of the district court and remand the matter for resentencing.
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