United States v. Adam Sanchez
United States v. Adam Sanchez
Opinion
UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 20-4342
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
ADAM SHAYLOR SANCHEZ,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Terrence W. Boyle, District Judge. (5:19-cr-00322-BO-1)
Submitted: December 13, 2021 Decided: January 19, 2022
Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and AGEE, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.
G. Alan DuBois, Federal Public Defender, Stephen C. Gordon, Assistant Federal Public Defender, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant. David A. Bragdon, Assistant United States Attorney, Jennifer P. May- Parker, Assistant United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM:
Adam Shaylor Sanchez pled guilty, pursuant to a plea agreement, to manufacturing
child pornography, in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), (e). The district court sentenced
Sanchez to 300 months’ imprisonment and imposed a lifetime term of supervised release
with certain conditions. On appeal, Sanchez’s counsel has filed a brief pursuant to Anders
v. California,
386 U.S. 738(1967), stating that there are no meritorious grounds for appeal
but questioning whether Sanchez’s sentence is substantively reasonable. Sanchez was
notified of his right to file a pro se supplemental brief, but he has not done so. The
Government has moved to dismiss the appeal based on the appellate waiver in Sanchez’s
plea agreement. We deny the Government’s motion to dismiss, affirm Sanchez’s
conviction, vacate his sentence, and remand for resentencing.
Our review pursuant to Anders revealed a meritorious issue that falls outside the
scope of Sanchez’s appellate waiver. While the district court announced some conditions
of supervised release at sentencing, the written judgment contained multiple discretionary
conditions of supervised release that were not announced at sentencing, including all of the
standard conditions and most of the additional conditions. Thus, the district court violated
the rule that “all non-mandatory conditions of supervised release must be announced at a
defendant’s sentencing hearing.” United States v. Rogers,
961 F.3d 291, 296(4th Cir.
2020). This is reversible error under de novo review,
id. at 295-96, and the appellate waiver
in Sanchez’s plea agreement does not bar that review, United States v. Singletary,
984 F.3d 342, 344-45 (4th Cir. 2021).
2 When the district court fails to announce discretionary conditions of supervised
release that are later included in the written judgment, the defendant’s sentence must be
vacated in its entirety and remanded for resentencing. See Singletary, 984 F.3d at 346 &
n.4. Accordingly, we have no occasion to consider any additional challenges to Sanchez’s
sentence, including the one raised in counsel’s Anders brief, or whether such challenges
are barred by his appellate waiver.
In accordance with Anders, we have reviewed the entire record and have found no
other meritorious grounds for appeal. Accordingly, we deny the Government’s motion to
dismiss, affirm Sanchez’s conviction, vacate his sentence in accordance with Rogers and
Singletary, and remand for resentencing. This court requires that counsel inform Sanchez,
in writing, of the right to petition the Supreme Court of the United States for further review.
If Sanchez requests that a petition be filed, but counsel believes that such a petition would
be frivolous, then counsel may move in this court for leave to withdraw from
representation. Counsel’s motion must state that a copy thereof was served on Sanchez.
We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are
adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the
decisional process.
AFFIRMED IN PART, VACATED IN PART, AND REMANDED
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