United States v. Frankie Murguia, Jr.
United States v. Frankie Murguia, Jr.
Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Frankie DeLaRosa Murguia, Jr., appeals from the 15-year supervised release term imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations conspiracy, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) and 846. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we vacate the supervised release term and remand for resentencing.
In imposing sentence, the district court erroneously calculated the Guidelines range for the supervised release term as three years to life. As the government concedes, the Guidelines range is instead three to five years. See U.S.S.G. § 5D1.2(a)(l). The court imposed a supervised release term three times greater than the high-end of that range, and far in excess of Murguia’s 30-month custodial sentence. Under these circumstances, we cannot conclude that the court would have imposed the same sentence absent the Guidelines error. Accordingly, we vacate Murguia’s supervised release term and remand for resentencing so that the district court’s analysis can proceed from “an initial determination of the correct Guidelines range.” United States v. Munoz-Camarena, 631 F.3d 1028, 1031 (9th Cir. 2011) (per curiam); see also United States v. Hammons, 558 F.3d 1100, 1105-06 (9th Cir. 2009) (district court’s failure to calculate the correct Guidelines range was plain error).
VACATED in part and REMANDED.
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