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No. 09-5082
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. Thomas D. Schroeder,
District Judge. (1:08-cr-00165-TDS-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Javar Eugene Sutton pled guilty to unlawful possession
of a firearm by a convicted felon and was sentenced as an armed
career criminal to a term of 180 months imprisonment.
U.S.C. 922(g)(1), 924(e) (2006);
Manual 4B1.4 (2008).
See 18
punishable
by
was
more
than
incorrectly
one
year
of
imprisonment
sentenced
as
an
armed
and
therefore
he
career
criminal.
___ F.3d ___, 2011 WL 3607266 (4th Cir. Aug. 17, 2011) (en
banc), we vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing.
Under
criminal
if
convictions
924(e),
he
for
violates
a
serious
defendant
is
922(g)(1)
drug
and
offense
or
an
armed
has
a
three
violent
career
prior
felony
predicate
felony,
as
conviction
defined
in
because
922(g)
and
neither
offense
924(e).
Under
was
North
Carolina law, both offenses were Class H felonies and Sutton was
2
in
criminal
structured
history
category
sentencing
II.
scheme,
Under
the
the
North
presumptive
Carolina
range
of
(setting
out
minimum
and
maximum
sentences
mitigated
range
mitigating
of
4-5
months,
the
factors,
and
thus
could
he
judge
not
must
have
found
have
received
Guidelines
range,
finding
that
Suttons
current
age
and
incurred
were
mitigating
factors.
Subsequently,
we
In
sentence
light
imposed
resentencing.
of
by
our
the
holding
in
district
Simmons,
court
we
and
vacate
remand
the
for
the
court
and
argument
would
not
aid
the
decisional
process.
VACATED AND REMANDED