U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2024

United States v. Smith

United States v. Smith
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · Decided November 13, 2024

United States v. Smith

Opinion

Case: 24-50119 Document: 51-1 Page: 1 Date Filed: 11/13/2024

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ____________ United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit No. 24-50119 Summary Calendar FILED ____________ November 13, 2024 Lyle W. Cayce United States of America, Clerk Plaintiff—Appellee, versus Sally Renae Smith, Defendant—Appellant. ______________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas USDC No. 2:20-CR-1356-2 ______________________________ Before Haynes, Higginson, and Douglas, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam: * Sally Renae Smith pleaded guilty, pursuant to a written plea agreement, to conspiracy to import 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 960(a)(1), 960(b)(1), and 963. Smith was held accountable for 3.422 kilograms of actual methamphetamine, and the district _____________________ * This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.

Case: 24-50119 Document: 51-1 Page: 2 Date Filed: 11/13/2024

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court sentenced her to 292 months in prison and five years of supervised release.

Smith argues that there are clerical errors in the judgment and presentence report (PSR) that must be corrected. The superseding indictment, to which she pleaded guilty, charged her with conspiracy to import 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 960(a)(1), 960(b)(1), and 963. The judgment states that she was convicted of conspiracy to import more than 500 grams of methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 963. The PSR reflects that she was convicted of conspiracy to import methamphetamine.

Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 provides that “the court may at any time correct a clerical error in a judgment, order, or other part of the record, or correct an error in the record arising from oversight or omission.”

Rule 36 authorizes this court to correct only clerical errors, which occur when “the court intended one thing but by merely clerical mistake or oversight did another.” United States v. Steen, 55 F.3d 1022, 1026 n.3 (5th Cir. 1995) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). We can also order correction of a clerical error in a PSR. See United States v. Mackay, 757 F.3d 195, 196, 200 (5th Cir. 2014).

Because the judgment and PSR contain clerical errors, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court and REMAND for the limited purpose of correcting the clerical errors in the judgment and PSR.

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